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 Barbados and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Colin Newman to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Residents. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Jacques Brel,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Schoolly D,
Japan,
Cymande,
Barbara Tucker,
Eurythmics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Martian,
The Sonics,
Soft Cell,
Lalann,
Con Funk Shun,
Hoover,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nik Kershaw,
Lungfish,
Sarah Menescal,
Sugar Minott,
Make Up,
Marvin Gaye,
Juan Atkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neu!,
Simply Red,
48th St. Collective,
Joey Negro,
Au Pairs,
Pantaleimon,
the Slits,
LL Cool J,
Darondo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jandek,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Litter,
Heaven 17,
Kayak,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thee Headcoats,
Iggy Pop,
Albert Ayler,
Faust,
DJ Sneak,
Erykah Badu,
Underground Resistance,
Terry Callier,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dennis Brown,
Altered Images,
The Grass Roots,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Oblivians,
The Barracudas,
the Soft Cell,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.