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 Luxembourg and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Madrid and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Lou Reed 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 Gang Gang Dance to the jazz 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
Clear Light,
The Gap Band,
Rod Modell,
Bush Tetras,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sun Ra,
Minnie Riperton,
Maleditus Sound,
Fluxion,
Symarip,
Gang Gang Dance,
Duran Duran,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
Metal Thangz,
Dark Day,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cluster,
the Normal,
Al Stewart,
The Stooges,
Wolf Eyes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Outsiders,
Con Funk Shun,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Machine,
Jerry's Kids,
Sugar Minott,
Joensuu 1685,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
June Days,
K-Klass,
Parry Music,
DNA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tommy Roe,
These Immortal Souls,
Barbara Tucker,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visage,
Unrelated Segments,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang Green,
The Raincoats,
Tubeway Army,
Max Romeo,
Yaz,
The Monks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Foxx,
Sun City Girls,
Mad Mike,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cure,
Qualms,
Joey Negro,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Section 25,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye.
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.