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 Lesotho and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Curtis Mayfield,
Prince Buster,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott Heron,
Wire,
Organ,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Sneak,
Juan Atkins,
The Martian,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Monks,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
Cal Tjader,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Yusef Lateef,
Marshall Jefferson,
ABBA,
Barbara Tucker,
Sight & Sound,
One Last Wish,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bootsy Collins,
The Flesh Eaters,
Franke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Archie Shepp,
The Blackbyrds,
Skaos,
the Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
Glenn Branca,
Rotary Connection,
a-ha,
Joensuu 1685,
Accadde A,
Sällskapet,
Q and Not U,
the Association,
World's Most,
Delta 5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Godley & Creme,
The Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Fat Boys,
Pagans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lightning Bolt,
Sarah Menescal,
Surgeon,
Brass Construction,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Skatalites,
Eli Mardock,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.