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 Azerbaijan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Procol Harum to the jazz 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grey Daturas,
The Dirtbombs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Patti Smith,
Connie Case,
Tres Demented,
The Electric Prunes,
Isaac Hayes,
Godley & Creme,
Joey Negro,
Index,
a-ha,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
New Age Steppers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yellowson,
Anakelly,
Yazoo,
Bootsy Collins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Groovy Waters,
The Residents,
Little Man,
The Gun Club,
Jerry's Kids,
Eurythmics,
Dave Gahan,
Boz Scaggs,
Suicide,
World's Most,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Television,
Wally Richardson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Skarface,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric Copeland,
Gil Scott Heron,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
AZ,
Judy Mowatt,
R.M.O.,
Bang On A Can,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Durutti Column,
The Invisible,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scientists,
Smog,
James White and The Blacks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amazonics,
The Searchers,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.