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 Turkey and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Calgary.
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 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 Yellowson to the dance 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Sonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cal Tjader,
Brothers Johnson,
Arthur Verocai,
Smog,
Rites of Spring,
Faraquet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
MC5,
Cameo,
Lalann,
Bill Near,
Panda Bear,
The Fall,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Deepchord,
L. Decosne,
The Birthday Party,
Carl Craig,
The Beau Brummels,
Lindisfarne,
Circle Jerks,
Mad Mike,
Liliput,
Sonic Youth,
cv313,
Roger Hodgson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erasure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Fraelich,
Con Funk Shun,
Minutemen,
Marcia Griffiths,
Essential Logic,
Bad Manners,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joensuu 1685,
Isaac Hayes,
Minor Threat,
Moss Icon,
The Smoke,
Joyce Sims,
The Cure,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The J.B.'s,
Marvin Gaye,
June of 44,
Robert Hood,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Leaves,
Rosa Yemen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.