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 Ukraine and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 L. Decosne to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Pantytec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gichy Dan,
The Smoke,
Junior Murvin,
Soft Cell,
Toni Rubio,
Barrington Levy,
Stetsasonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Masters at Work,
Aloha Tigers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Accadde A,
Electric Prunes,
Technova,
Scott Walker,
Gang Starr,
Sonic Youth,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aural Exciters,
Carl Craig,
Y Pants,
Loose Ends,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Pop Group,
Skriet,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Zeros,
Radiohead,
AZ,
Panda Bear,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Real Kids,
Camouflage,
David McCallum,
Mo-Dettes,
Eurythmics,
Brick,
a-ha,
Amon Düül II,
Rakim,
Glambeats Corp.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Clear Light,
Black Bananas,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Christie,
Black Sheep,
Minny Pops,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yusef Lateef,
Laurel Aitken,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Youth Brigade,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.