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 Peru and from London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Brothers Johnson to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Oblivians,
Peter and Kerry,
Excepter,
Amon Düül II,
Symarip,
FM Einheit,
Frankie Knuckles,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Animal Collective,
The J.B.'s,
Adolescents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agent Orange,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Average White Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boredoms,
Lungfish,
Ituana,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Y Pants,
Mantronix,
The American Breed,
Yazoo,
Quando Quango,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mission of Burma,
Cluster,
The Leaves,
Isaac Hayes,
a-ha,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cramps,
Tropical Tobacco,
Chris Corsano,
The Velvet Underground,
Brick,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Monochrome Set,
Mark Hollis,
Reuben Wilson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
The Pop Group,
Eve St. Jones,
The Skatalites,
Monolake,
Man Eating Sloth,
Patti Smith,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wasted Youth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Modern Lovers,
Aural Exciters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Darondo,
The Zeros,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roxette,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.