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 Spain and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a B.T. Express record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Rekid,
Lalo Schifrin,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Derrick Morgan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cecil Taylor,
Radio Birdman,
The Dave Clark Five,
New York Dolls,
Sugar Minott,
The Dirtbombs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Franke,
Rhythm & Sound,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minor Threat,
Urselle,
Quadrant,
The Walker Brothers,
Reagan Youth,
The Happenings,
Anakelly,
Delta 5,
OOIOO,
Sarah Menescal,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gap Band,
The Names,
B.T. Express,
U.S. Maple,
Bill Near,
The Red Krayola,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed,
Tim Buckley,
The Leaves,
Erasure,
Grauzone,
Ituana,
Television Personalities,
Chris & Cosey,
Eli Mardock,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lindisfarne,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Kinks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wire,
Wally Richardson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Faust,
the Human League,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Soulsonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.