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 Egypt and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 cv313 to the punk 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Make Up,
Lucky Dragons,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
FM Einheit,
Vladislav Delay,
Section 25,
Tubeway Army,
Skarface,
Tim Buckley,
Groovy Waters,
The Names,
Public Image Ltd.,
Average White Band,
Adolescents,
The Tremeloes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Foxx,
Sarah Menescal,
Can,
The J.B.'s,
Gastr Del Sol,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Moby Grape,
John Lydon,
Masters at Work,
Tears for Fears,
Bush Tetras,
The Mummies,
The Fire Engines,
Colin Newman,
New York Dolls,
Davy DMX,
The Slits,
Aural Exciters,
Interpol,
Nils Olav,
Saccharine Trust,
Deadbeat,
The Remains,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roy Ayers,
Sällskapet,
Matthew Bourne,
Visage,
Amon Düül,
Grey Daturas,
Pussy Galore,
Basic Channel,
Barrington Levy,
The American Breed,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
E-Dancer,
The Moody Blues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fat Boys,
Desert Stars,
MC5,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.