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 Bahrain and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Jacques Brel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brothers Johnson,
Harmonia,
John Cale,
The Blackbyrds,
Prince Buster,
LL Cool J,
Eve St. Jones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Trumans Water,
Fluxion,
DJ Sneak,
Flipper,
Robert Wyatt,
Archie Shepp,
Ultimate Spinach,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Victims,
MDC,
Infiniti,
Skarface,
The Searchers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pere Ubu,
Gang Green,
Underground Resistance,
Agitation Free,
Eden Ahbez,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sound,
The Skatalites,
Deakin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
OOIOO,
The Dirtbombs,
R.M.O.,
Nick Fraelich,
The Durutti Column,
Bronski Beat,
Moebius,
Heaven 17,
Byron Stingily,
Oblivians,
Brass Construction,
Royal Trux,
The Fortunes,
Cluster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Masters at Work,
The Techniques,
Scrapy,
La Düsseldorf,
Jawbox,
The Angels of Light,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.