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 Kenya and from Milan.
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 Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jandek to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Television Personalities,
Alphaville,
The Skatalites,
Alton Ellis,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Mojo Men,
Peter & Gordon,
Monolake,
Mars,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalann,
Cecil Taylor,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeff Mills,
Tomorrow,
Rod Modell,
Kenny Larkin,
the Germs,
David Bowie,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gregory Isaacs,
cv313,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tom Boy,
Accadde A,
Todd Terry,
Fluxion,
Nils Olav,
Jandek,
In Retrospect,
R.M.O.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Raincoats,
Joe Smooth,
David Axelrod,
Quadrant,
the Sonics,
The Angels of Light,
Soul Sonic Force,
Radiopuhelimet,
Section 25,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Josef K,
Drexciya,
Morten Harket,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Byron Stingily,
Amazonics,
Hashim,
Faust,
Pagans,
Monks,
The Vogues,
Minny Pops,
Roxy Music,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
JFA,
Reuben Wilson,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.