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 Cambodia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Fatback Band 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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DJ Sneak,
Little Man,
The Flesh Eaters,
Robert Görl,
La Düsseldorf,
The Real Kids,
Hardrive,
Dead Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Erasure,
Sarah Menescal,
Graham Central Station,
The Smiths,
Symarip,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tommy Roe,
The Fire Engines,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wire,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barrington Levy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sound Behaviour,
Public Enemy,
Yazoo,
Fluxion,
cv313,
Delta 5,
The Sound,
The Techniques,
The Toasters,
Cal Tjader,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Make Up,
Bobby Byrd,
Ronan,
Flash Fearless,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jimmy McGriff,
FM Einheit,
Average White Band,
The Gap Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Slits,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Scratch Acid,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sixth Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
Thee Headcoats,
The Velvet Underground,
Lindisfarne,
Josef K,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.