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 Cuba and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Scan 7 to the disco 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
AZ,
Juan Atkins,
Quadrant,
Nico,
Ornette Coleman,
The Kinks,
Roger Hodgson,
Avey Tare,
Gang of Four,
Accadde A,
A Certain Ratio,
Boredoms,
Khruangbin,
Kenny Larkin,
Gang Green,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Niagra,
June Days,
The Fortunes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quantec,
Whodini,
Wally Richardson,
Massinfluence,
Ituana,
The Five Americans,
The Buckinghams,
Tommy Roe,
Rites of Spring,
The Toasters,
Soft Cell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Associates,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Raincoats,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jandek,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Golliwogs,
Isaac Hayes,
Barbara Tucker,
Scott Walker,
The Move,
Television Personalities,
Brass Construction,
Icehouse,
Scan 7,
Thee Headcoats,
Smog,
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
Warren Ellis,
Excepter,
Au Pairs,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Cale,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.