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 Paris.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 Pulsallama to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sonics,
Hasil Adkins,
Mantronix,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dual Sessions,
Tim Buckley,
the Association,
Nico,
Unrelated Segments,
Rekid,
Suburban Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Mission of Burma,
Massinfluence,
Niagra,
Franke,
The Selecter,
The Cowsills,
Quando Quango,
The Cramps,
48th St. Collective,
Half Japanese,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
Kerri Chandler,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Swans,
Bauhaus,
Joensuu 1685,
Warren Ellis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joy Division,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantytec,
Pet Shop Boys,
cv313,
Deakin,
The Human League,
Lower 48,
Public Image Ltd.,
Spoonie Gee,
Altered Images,
Tres Demented,
Crime,
Fela Kuti,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Minor Threat,
Urselle,
The Toasters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zapp,
Little Man,
One Last Wish,
Symarip,
Drexciya,
Marshall Jefferson,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.