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 Pakistan and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hasil Adkins to the grunge 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Wally Richardson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Index,
Laurel Aitken,
A Certain Ratio,
Roxy Music,
The Fugs,
Con Funk Shun,
Reuben Wilson,
Juan Atkins,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Byrd,
Michelle Simonal,
Rotary Connection,
The Barracudas,
Black Pus,
Donald Byrd,
Iggy Pop,
Glenn Branca,
Fela Kuti,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Sonics,
The Black Dice,
Crooked Eye,
Unwound,
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
The Angels of Light,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scott Walker,
Dark Day,
Sarah Menescal,
Althea and Donna,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tomorrow,
JFA,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
DJ Style,
Can,
Dave Gahan,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Skatalites,
Adolescents,
Mo-Dettes,
Amon Düül,
Gabor Szabo,
Josef K,
The Detroit Cobras,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Basic Channel,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chrome,
Model 500,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funky Four + One,
Tim Buckley,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ossler,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.