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 Vanuatu and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Interpol to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sixth Finger,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Black Dice,
The Gladiators,
The Cowsills,
Icehouse,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pulsallama,
The Kinks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Heaven 17,
The Beau Brummels,
Mandrill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Dead C,
L. Decosne,
The J.B.'s,
Prince Buster,
The Young Rascals,
Public Enemy,
The Wake,
Soulsonic Force,
David McCallum,
Parry Music,
Second Layer,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Barracudas,
Minny Pops,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Chris & Cosey,
John Holt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yaz,
Arcadia,
Goldenarms,
The Names,
Kas Product,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Letta Mbulu,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rufus Thomas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Doors,
Lucky Dragons,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
These Immortal Souls,
Nico,
Drive Like Jehu,
Al Stewart,
Hasil Adkins,
Hardrive,
Royal Trux,
Jandek,
Brick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
JFA,
The Litter,
Rod Modell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.