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 Denmark and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Minnie Riperton to the funk 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
The Trojans,
Albert Ayler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
World's Most,
The Litter,
Altered Images,
Brand Nubian,
Camberwell Now,
In Retrospect,
Idris Muhammad,
The Music Machine,
The Slits,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang Gang Dance,
Franke,
Pagans,
Jandek,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Smoke,
Ludus,
Slave,
The Black Dice,
The Wake,
Erasure,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Monochrome Set,
Josef K,
Nirvana,
The Techniques,
Scott Walker,
Sun City Girls,
Quadrant,
Barrington Levy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Martian,
Rod Modell,
Dark Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Lydon,
Rotary Connection,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sight & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Magazine,
Marc Almond,
Dave Gahan,
The Toasters,
Massinfluence,
Don Cherry,
ABBA,
Swell Maps,
Tears for Fears,
New York Dolls,
Youth Brigade,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.