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 Finland and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Sister Nancy to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Barry Ungar,
Pulsallama,
Kayak,
Boz Scaggs,
The Techniques,
Black Sheep,
Jimmy McGriff,
Slick Rick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Subhumans,
The Fortunes,
Jeff Mills,
Bush Tetras,
Nick Fraelich,
Anakelly,
Pere Ubu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Throbbing Gristle,
La Düsseldorf,
Dave Gahan,
The Trojans,
Section 25,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fat Boys,
Derrick May,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Laurel Aitken,
Schoolly D,
The Five Americans,
Soulsonic Force,
The Young Rascals,
Half Japanese,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sonic Youth,
Japan,
Intrusion,
The Modern Lovers,
Joe Finger,
Dennis Brown,
Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
New York Dolls,
the Swans,
Pylon,
Bill Near,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Glenn Branca,
the Association,
Terry Callier,
Steve Hackett,
Rotary Connection,
Marvin Gaye,
David McCallum,
Drexciya,
OOIOO,
Archie Shepp,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.