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 Kyrgyzstan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Loose Ends to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Donald Byrd,
Kayak,
Babytalk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
Bob Dylan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
T. Rex,
JFA,
Gerry Rafferty,
Talk Talk,
Nirvana,
Banda Bassotti,
Sonic Youth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kurtis Blow,
Swans,
Aloha Tigers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Janne Schatter,
The Sonics,
Ludus,
The Blackbyrds,
Man Eating Sloth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Underground Resistance,
The Invisible,
Freddie Wadling,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Offenders,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skriet,
Erasure,
Patti Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Index,
Isaac Hayes,
Model 500,
L. Decosne,
Gang Green,
Flipper,
Nils Olav,
Hot Snakes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roxy Music,
Tres Demented,
The Walker Brothers,
The Remains,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pussy Galore,
Deadbeat,
Second Layer,
Supertramp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Durutti Column,
Deakin,
Soulsonic Force,
Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.