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 Belarus and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harmonia to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Avey Tare,
Sandy B,
Banda Bassotti,
Excepter,
Main Source,
The Sound,
Minny Pops,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Swell Maps,
Ken Boothe,
Delon & Dalcan,
Basic Channel,
Erykah Badu,
Crime,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
Alphaville,
Traffic Nightmare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Guru Guru,
The Fortunes,
Television,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Martian,
Magazine,
Agitation Free,
Q and Not U,
KRS-One,
Warsaw,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eric Dolphy,
Visage,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
Anthony Braxton,
Youth Brigade,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grey Daturas,
Patti Smith,
Amon Düül II,
Sam Rivers,
Das Ding,
Eddi Front,
The Slackers,
Lakeside,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Donald Byrd,
MDC,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Icehouse,
Joensuu 1685,
Masters at Work,
The Walker Brothers,
Blake Baxter,
The Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Last Poets,
Oblivians,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.