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 Bulgaria and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Unrelated Segments to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sun Ra,
Inner City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brick,
Altered Images,
Davy DMX,
Los Fastidios,
Byron Stingily,
Delta 5,
Crash Course in Science,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roxy Music,
Erykah Badu,
Althea and Donna,
Man Parrish,
Tom Boy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cybotron,
Spoonie Gee,
Maurizio,
The Wake,
Model 500,
John Foxx,
The Happenings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MDC,
Don Cherry,
Cheater Slicks,
Sugar Minott,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Cowsills,
The Gap Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang of Four,
Young Marble Giants,
Accadde A,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Massinfluence,
The Offenders,
The Tremeloes,
Graham Central Station,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David Bowie,
Barry Ungar,
Suburban Knight,
Moebius,
Avey Tare,
Nirvana,
Q and Not U,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
E-Dancer,
Barrington Levy,
Smog,
Lakeside,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.