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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the rock 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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Brand Nubian,
OOIOO,
The Barracudas,
Eurythmics,
Pagans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Johnny Clarke,
Skaos,
Massinfluence,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Clear Light,
Main Source,
Hashim,
Yellowson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pantaleimon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Japan,
DJ Sneak,
Matthew Bourne,
Piero Umiliani,
The Mummies,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Flag,
Idris Muhammad,
Minny Pops,
Swans,
X-102,
Cluster,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Parry Music,
Maleditus Sound,
Y Pants,
Oneida,
K-Klass,
EPMD,
Quadrant,
Alphaville,
Laurel Aitken,
Curtis Mayfield,
D'Angelo,
The Black Dice,
Groovy Waters,
LL Cool J,
Funky Four + One,
Spandau Ballet,
Darondo,
Loose Ends,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter & Gordon,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Maurizio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Panda Bear,
Rapeman,
Drive Like Jehu,
10cc,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.