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 Swaziland and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Misunderstood to the crunk 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Danielle Patucci,
Dual Sessions,
Massinfluence,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Procol Harum,
Popol Vuh,
Kaleidoscope,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Graham Central Station,
Pylon,
MDC,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bronski Beat,
The Zeros,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cybotron,
Jacques Brel,
48th St. Collective,
Wasted Youth,
Black Bananas,
The Moleskins,
Kayak,
Groovy Waters,
Circle Jerks,
Moss Icon,
The Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Harry Pussy,
Joy Division,
Fatback Band,
Monolake,
Minny Pops,
Gichy Dan,
Scion,
June Days,
The Cramps,
PIL,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hashim,
cv313,
Magazine,
Donny Hathaway,
Ornette Coleman,
the Human League,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Das Ding,
Tubeway Army,
The Move,
The Invisible,
Roy Ayers,
Audionom,
The J.B.'s,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rosa Yemen,
Archie Shepp,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Subhumans,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.