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 Mozambique and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Flipper to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Andrew Hill,
Donny Hathaway,
The Walker Brothers,
Derrick May,
Intrusion,
Lou Christie,
Black Bananas,
Dawn Penn,
Royal Trux,
Section 25,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rufus Thomas,
Mission of Burma,
Rapeman,
Television Personalities,
Stetsasonic,
The Names,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mars,
Visage,
Television,
Maleditus Sound,
Jerry's Kids,
Arab on Radar,
Bill Near,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gap Band,
Carl Craig,
Bobby Womack,
The Star Department,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Underground Resistance,
Vainqueur,
Moby Grape,
Rites of Spring,
Cal Tjader,
R.M.O.,
Angry Samoans,
The Young Rascals,
The Knickerbockers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mark Hollis,
The Last Poets,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Juan Atkins,
Cecil Taylor,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vladislav Delay,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Happenings,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soul II Soul,
Bluetip,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.