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 Uganda and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Blackbyrds to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Black Bananas,
The Move,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Niagra,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Harmonia,
Moebius,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pagans,
Glenn Branca,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Prince Buster,
DNA,
The Stooges,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Y Pants,
The Golliwogs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Byrd,
Byron Stingily,
Man Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
a-ha,
Zapp,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mantronix,
The Music Machine,
Ronnie Foster,
Joensuu 1685,
48th St. Collective,
Gang Gang Dance,
Popol Vuh,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Leaves,
Crash Course in Science,
The Seeds,
The Zeros,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultra Naté,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxette,
Cymande,
Cluster,
Fad Gadget,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David Axelrod,
Reuben Wilson,
Bronski Beat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.