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 Azerbaijan and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Babytalk to the techno 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
Brass Construction,
The Black Dice,
Todd Rundgren,
Skaos,
Animal Collective,
Motorama,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pylon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Piero Umiliani,
The Invisible,
Blancmange,
The Moody Blues,
the Association,
Todd Terry,
Colin Newman,
Nas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Mummies,
Stockholm Monsters,
Man Eating Sloth,
X-102,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q and Not U,
Clear Light,
Spoonie Gee,
H. Thieme,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fad Gadget,
Visage,
The Neon Judgement,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gabor Szabo,
ABC,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reagan Youth,
Eurythmics,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Duran Duran,
Rotary Connection,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Star Department,
Radio Birdman,
Sparks,
Ten City,
Audionom,
Radiohead,
Arab on Radar,
Jeff Mills,
Tommy Roe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Idris Muhammad,
Joensuu 1685,
Tom Boy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mission of Burma,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.