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 Lithuania and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba 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 Rosa Yemen to the punk 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Moon,
Wolf Eyes,
Wire,
Essential Logic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ice-T,
Robert Wyatt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Avey Tare,
Donny Hathaway,
The Skatalites,
The Modern Lovers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Oblivians,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dual Sessions,
Black Sheep,
Livin' Joy,
Can,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rod Modell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
Prince Buster,
Harpers Bizarre,
Donald Byrd,
Interpol,
Zero Boys,
Fela Kuti,
New Order,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Hill,
The Five Americans,
Anthony Braxton,
Rapeman,
Laurel Aitken,
Ossler,
Joensuu 1685,
Metal Thangz,
Jandek,
Pussy Galore,
The Birthday Party,
Main Source,
Derrick Morgan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
U.S. Maple,
Blossom Toes,
Minny Pops,
Robert Görl,
Sandy B,
Y Pants,
Reagan Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Slits,
The Last Poets,
The Mummies,
Q and Not U,
DJ Sneak,
Peter & Gordon,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.