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 Slovenia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Radiopuhelimet to the electroclash 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Curtis Mayfield,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fortunes,
Barbara Tucker,
The Pop Group,
Harmonia,
June of 44,
Surgeon,
Half Japanese,
In Retrospect,
Hasil Adkins,
Al Stewart,
Nas,
Country Teasers,
R.M.O.,
Joey Negro,
Section 25,
Stetsasonic,
Dark Day,
Magma,
Sexual Harrassment,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonic Youth,
Goldenarms,
Funkadelic,
Godley & Creme,
Harpers Bizarre,
Easy Going,
Angry Samoans,
U.S. Maple,
The Fall,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minor Threat,
Rotary Connection,
Altered Images,
Leonard Cohen,
The Red Krayola,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The United States of America,
The Grass Roots,
Groovy Waters,
UT,
Trumans Water,
The Divine Comedy,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobby Byrd,
The Zeros,
Warren Ellis,
Ohio Players,
Suicide,
Average White Band,
Panda Bear,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Throbbing Gristle,
Scion,
K-Klass,
The Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.