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 Jordan and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Delta 5 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
the Association,
The Gories,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Zeros,
Groovy Waters,
Country Teasers,
Roy Ayers,
The Leaves,
Panda Bear,
DJ Sneak,
Judy Mowatt,
The Happenings,
John Lydon,
Procol Harum,
Iggy Pop,
The Associates,
Soulsonic Force,
Skarface,
The Dead C,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Terry Callier,
The Mojo Men,
Stereo Dub,
Rod Modell,
The Moody Blues,
The Velvet Underground,
Chrome,
Kaleidoscope,
Easy Going,
Kool Moe Dee,
Chris Corsano,
The Doobie Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Hood,
Swans,
The Gap Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Saccharine Trust,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter & Gordon,
T.S.O.L.,
Eurythmics,
Nas,
Junior Murvin,
The Gladiators,
Simply Red,
Section 25,
The Move,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Gichy Dan,
Laurel Aitken,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.