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 Barbados and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Delon & Dalcan,
Juan Atkins,
the Slits,
Loose Ends,
Ituana,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crime,
Soft Cell,
Blossom Toes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jandek,
Oneida,
Mandrill,
Marc Almond,
Young Marble Giants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q65,
The Star Department,
Swell Maps,
Marine Girls,
Joyce Sims,
Lightning Bolt,
Aaron Thompson,
Stetsasonic,
Easy Going,
The Martian,
Lyres,
Infiniti,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amazonics,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scrapy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
F. McDonald,
Tomorrow,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythm & Sound,
Radio Birdman,
Malaria!,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
X-102,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Henry Cow,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Q and Not U,
Technova,
The Durutti Column,
Rotary Connection,
Roxette,
Sight & Sound,
Albert Ayler,
Mad Mike,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
D'Angelo,
Faraquet,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.