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 Burkina and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 ABBA to the rap 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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eden Ahbez,
Junior Murvin,
The Gap Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nils Olav,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sun Ra,
Popol Vuh,
The Names,
F. McDonald,
Basic Channel,
Robert Hood,
The Move,
The Cure,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Swans,
Bootsy Collins,
Siglo XX,
Juan Atkins,
Andrew Hill,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wally Richardson,
Ponytail,
Moebius,
Crispy Ambulance,
Minnie Riperton,
Charles Mingus,
Swell Maps,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kool Moe Dee,
Isaac Hayes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Television Personalities,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
KRS-One,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Music Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
UT,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Sherman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rites of Spring,
Kurtis Blow,
Tres Demented,
The Moleskins,
The Remains,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sugar Minott,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Henry Cow,
Colin Newman,
Flash Fearless,
The Vogues,
Pere Ubu,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mummies,
The Monks,
Marvin Gaye,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.