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 Georgia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Los Fastidios to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Sandy B,
Crime,
Dark Day,
The Residents,
The Toasters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalann,
Talk Talk,
Cybotron,
Absolute Body Control,
Jeff Mills,
Minutemen,
UT,
The Doobie Brothers,
Adolescents,
Country Teasers,
Byron Stingily,
Marcia Griffiths,
Symarip,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gap Band,
Jacques Brel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gong,
The Stooges,
Nick Fraelich,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Danielle Patucci,
Dual Sessions,
Can,
Guru Guru,
Deepchord,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moby Grape,
Blake Baxter,
Tubeway Army,
Janne Schatter,
The Young Rascals,
The Busters,
Yusef Lateef,
Porter Ricks,
John Foxx,
Boz Scaggs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Basic Channel,
Sonic Youth,
Alphaville,
The Trojans,
The Count Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pere Ubu,
the Bar-Kays,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Doors,
Deadbeat,
The Knickerbockers,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.