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 Kenya and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jerry's Kids to the punk 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Tim Buckley,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bluetip,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Moebius,
Sparks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Boz Scaggs,
Davy DMX,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Unrelated Segments,
The Invisible,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Liliput,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Animal Collective,
U.S. Maple,
Malaria!,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Durutti Column,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Swans,
The Techniques,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Walker Brothers,
Agent Orange,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Crime,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Amon Düül II,
Johnny Clarke,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rakim,
Roy Ayers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang of Four,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Residents,
Sun Ra,
ABC,
The Beau Brummels,
The Zeros,
Joy Division,
Slave,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Wolf Eyes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Minor Threat,
Cecil Taylor,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.