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 Antigua and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Moss Icon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Andrew Hill,
The Real Kids,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Youth Brigade,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Livin' Joy,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Excepter,
Flipper,
Con Funk Shun,
Delta 5,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cure,
The Doors,
Minnie Riperton,
Pagans,
Infiniti,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Human League,
Symarip,
Grauzone,
Dennis Brown,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sound Behaviour,
Bluetip,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Los Fastidios,
Bob Dylan,
DJ Sneak,
Roxy Music,
The Gories,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Colin Newman,
Michelle Simonal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed,
Iggy Pop,
The Slits,
Harmonia,
Kayak,
Funkadelic,
Gabor Szabo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mantronix,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Steve Hackett,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sällskapet,
The Associates,
Circle Jerks,
Terry Callier,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.