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 Equatorial Guinea and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Minny Pops to the rock 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan 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?
Wire,
Khruangbin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Groovy Waters,
X-101,
Scrapy,
Procol Harum,
Chrome,
Country Teasers,
The Move,
ABC,
Johnny Osbourne,
FM Einheit,
Japan,
Terry Callier,
Main Source,
Massinfluence,
Unwound,
Joe Finger,
Interpol,
Black Bananas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Glenn Branca,
UT,
Q and Not U,
Funkadelic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Pus,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
DJ Style,
Masters at Work,
Jeff Mills,
kango's stein massive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
Avey Tare,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Silicon Teens,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fear,
Judy Mowatt,
Max Romeo,
Brass Construction,
The Walker Brothers,
Kerri Chandler,
Section 25,
Blancmange,
Susan Cadogan,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Gories,
Brick,
Marc Almond,
Shuggie Otis,
Cecil Taylor,
Jawbox,
Infiniti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.