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 Guinea and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Joensuu 1685,
Slick Rick,
Judy Mowatt,
The Moody Blues,
the Normal,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Loose Ends,
Lightning Bolt,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Underground Resistance,
Funky Four + One,
Kas Product,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultra Naté,
Gong,
Eurythmics,
Ornette Coleman,
Adolescents,
the Sonics,
Bobby Sherman,
The Stooges,
Nation of Ulysses,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
T. Rex,
Blake Baxter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Livin' Joy,
The Seeds,
Animal Collective,
The Blackbyrds,
Lyres,
The Evens,
Masters at Work,
Slave,
Bad Manners,
Kenny Larkin,
Lower 48,
Chris & Cosey,
Suburban Knight,
Duran Duran,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronnie Foster,
The Searchers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sun Ra,
EPMD,
Main Source,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Massinfluence,
David Axelrod,
Subhumans,
Urselle,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wasted Youth,
The Pretty Things,
Max Romeo,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.