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 Barbados and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Derrick May to the grime 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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Rotary Connection,
Althea and Donna,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Wyatt,
The Five Americans,
The Victims,
Brick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pere Ubu,
The Fugs,
X-Ray Spex,
Delon & Dalcan,
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Durutti Column,
Fad Gadget,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Delta 5,
Skriet,
Tres Demented,
Funkadelic,
Spandau Ballet,
Basic Channel,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Vogues,
Shuggie Otis,
Joe Finger,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chrome,
Idris Muhammad,
Flash Fearless,
The Gap Band,
CMW,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Echospace,
Grauzone,
Royal Trux,
Kayak,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mandrill,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Suburban Knight,
Niagra,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Birthday Party,
Terry Callier,
The Buckinghams,
Jacques Brel,
Scrapy,
Fugazi,
The Velvet Underground,
Monolake,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fortunes,
The Red Krayola,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.