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 Oman and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the rap 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Sun City Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
L. Decosne,
The Shadows of Knight,
Theoretical Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
The Electric Prunes,
Maleditus Sound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jeff Mills,
Procol Harum,
Steve Hackett,
Hardrive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric Copeland,
The Smiths,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Blackbyrds,
Fluxion,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Names,
The Velvet Underground,
cv313,
Crime,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joyce Sims,
Ice-T,
The Happenings,
Bill Wells,
Television,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Audionom,
Can,
The Stooges,
Groovy Waters,
Wings,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Panda Bear,
Blake Baxter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sugar Minott,
Zero Boys,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Franke,
Fort Wilson Riot,
R.M.O.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Anthony Braxton,
The Move,
Basic Channel,
Sällskapet,
The Zeros,
Animal Collective,
Monolake,
Sight & Sound,
Soft Cell,
Bad Manners,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.