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 Ivory Coast and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Blancmange to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Ultravox,
Q and Not U,
Theoretical Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Colin Newman,
Yazoo,
ABC,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Peter and Kerry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
PIL,
The Real Kids,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Sherman,
Smog,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arthur Verocai,
Ossler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Circle Jerks,
Shoche,
D'Angelo,
Infiniti,
Harmonia,
Crispian St. Peters,
Yaz,
The Barracudas,
Thompson Twins,
Skarface,
Aural Exciters,
Pere Ubu,
Hardrive,
Barbara Tucker,
One Last Wish,
Godley & Creme,
New Order,
MC5,
The Happenings,
Archie Shepp,
Neil Young,
Spoonie Gee,
Nik Kershaw,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ponytail,
Davy DMX,
Robert Hood,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eve St. Jones,
Easy Going,
Gabor Szabo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Blossom Toes,
Toni Rubio,
Interpol,
Saccharine Trust,
Arcadia,
cv313,
The Flesh Eaters,
Model 500,
Anthony Braxton,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.