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 Kosovo and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Fad Gadget to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
The Doobie Brothers,
Model 500,
Average White Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fear,
Don Cherry,
The Mojo Men,
Eddi Front,
June Days,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Johnny Clarke,
Rosa Yemen,
Junior Murvin,
Essential Logic,
The Stooges,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Echospace,
Eric Copeland,
Joy Division,
Dennis Brown,
Q65,
Lucky Dragons,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Moody Blues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Godley & Creme,
Marvin Gaye,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ten City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Clear Light,
The Golliwogs,
Skaos,
The Misunderstood,
Ultimate Spinach,
Thompson Twins,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
JFA,
Fela Kuti,
Juan Atkins,
Bang On A Can,
Boz Scaggs,
Basic Channel,
Quando Quango,
Zero Boys,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Man Parrish,
Toni Rubio,
Joensuu 1685,
Maleditus Sound,
Nirvana,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Gap Band,
Sun City Girls,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.