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 Zimbabwe and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Heaven 17 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
FM Einheit,
Cameo,
The Victims,
Jeff Lynne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Judy Mowatt,
Japan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mandrill,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Move,
Cybotron,
The Seeds,
Au Pairs,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Circle Jerks,
New Order,
Jandek,
Babytalk,
The Gun Club,
Jerry's Kids,
CMW,
Dawn Penn,
Laurel Aitken,
Reuben Wilson,
James White and The Blacks,
Barrington Levy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bush Tetras,
Cluster,
Loose Ends,
Juan Atkins,
Deadbeat,
KRS-One,
Scratch Acid,
Peter & Gordon,
the Soft Cell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Con Funk Shun,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Shuggie Otis,
Johnny Clarke,
Basic Channel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fatback Band,
Darondo,
Inner City,
Danielle Patucci,
Barclay James Harvest,
Talk Talk,
Arthur Verocai,
Y Pants,
Chris Corsano,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.