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 Niger and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sun Ra to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quantec,
Severed Heads,
Essential Logic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Minnie Riperton,
D'Angelo,
Easy Going,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
New York Dolls,
U.S. Maple,
Sällskapet,
Pussy Galore,
Camouflage,
ABC,
David McCallum,
Godley & Creme,
LL Cool J,
The Seeds,
The Cure,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stockholm Monsters,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marine Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Animal Collective,
Popol Vuh,
DJ Style,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rufus Thomas,
Patti Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television Personalities,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Schoolly D,
Drive Like Jehu,
Desert Stars,
Nik Kershaw,
Sun City Girls,
Bill Wells,
Gong,
Ash Ra Tempel,
H. Thieme,
Yusef Lateef,
AZ,
DNA,
The Happenings,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Faust,
Laurel Aitken,
China Crisis,
Yazoo,
Robert Görl,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Susan Cadogan,
Los Fastidios,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.