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 Syria and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Black Sheep to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
The Evens,
Zero Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Technova,
R.M.O.,
Quando Quango,
Maleditus Sound,
Josef K,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Thee Headcoats,
48th St. Collective,
Banda Bassotti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scan 7,
Minutemen,
Jawbox,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eric Copeland,
Index,
The Real Kids,
Maurizio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ice-T,
The Gladiators,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
B.T. Express,
China Crisis,
Rakim,
Mission of Burma,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Zapp,
Dead Boys,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joy Division,
Jandek,
Erykah Badu,
Sonic Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Divine Comedy,
Popol Vuh,
Sarah Menescal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
The Seeds,
Colin Newman,
Michelle Simonal,
Aaron Thompson,
Rufus Thomas,
Nils Olav,
DNA,
John Holt,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.