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 Vietnam and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Interpol to the funk 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
The Mojo Men,
Lower 48,
Subhumans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
8 Eyed Spy,
Byron Stingily,
Isaac Hayes,
Scrapy,
Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wasted Youth,
Aswad,
Letta Mbulu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dawn Penn,
Pharoah Sanders,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Josef K,
Bobby Womack,
Outsiders,
The Black Dice,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yaz,
Nico,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Los Fastidios,
Gong,
The Motions,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Pus,
PIL,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Saints,
Guru Guru,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Green,
The Leaves,
Throbbing Gristle,
Colin Newman,
The Music Machine,
Erykah Badu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sun Ra,
Robert Görl,
Danielle Patucci,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radiohead,
the Sonics,
Au Pairs,
Lou Reed,
The Associates,
Infiniti,
Symarip,
Al Stewart,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.