Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from the UAE and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Soulsonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Minutemen,
Freddie Wadling,
Eden Ahbez,
The Leaves,
Skarface,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Pop Group,
Cluster,
Maleditus Sound,
Prince Buster,
Urselle,
Morten Harket,
Roxette,
Rites of Spring,
Sun City Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Gap Band,
Television Personalities,
Vainqueur,
Moss Icon,
the Normal,
Sonic Youth,
Con Funk Shun,
Kayak,
Unwound,
Kas Product,
The Slits,
The Modern Lovers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oneida,
Amazonics,
Eve St. Jones,
The Music Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Invisible,
Yazoo,
Popol Vuh,
Sarah Menescal,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rekid,
Swell Maps,
Marshall Jefferson,
CMW,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Tremeloes,
Quando Quango,
Symarip,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crooked Eye,
Dark Day,
Neil Young,
Los Fastidios,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kerri Chandler,
Model 500,
Q and Not U,
Scan 7,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Easy Going,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Josef K,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.