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 Kyrgyzstan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Zapp to the rap 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Brass Construction,
Duran Duran,
Robert Görl,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alice Coltrane,
UT,
Ice-T,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sight & Sound,
Crooked Eye,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pantytec,
Yellowson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jesper Dahlback,
Kaleidoscope,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alton Ellis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Charles Mingus,
Black Moon,
The Skatalites,
Arthur Verocai,
Marmalade,
Young Marble Giants,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alphaville,
Lucky Dragons,
The Durutti Column,
James White and The Blacks,
John Foxx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
LL Cool J,
The Wake,
Chris Corsano,
Al Stewart,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Motions,
The Litter,
Bronski Beat,
Morten Harket,
The Count Five,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Young Rascals,
Laurel Aitken,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joensuu 1685,
Henry Cow,
Spandau Ballet,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boredoms,
Swans,
Circle Jerks,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
Rapeman,
Absolute Body Control,
Warren Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.