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 Iran and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the techno 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
The Residents,
Animal Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Das Ding,
Dawn Penn,
Sun City Girls,
Guru Guru,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Foxx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T.S.O.L.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jacques Brel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ultra Naté,
Monolake,
Theoretical Girls,
Malaria!,
Amazonics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
48th St. Collective,
Throbbing Gristle,
Connie Case,
Barbara Tucker,
Technova,
Sam Rivers,
Ultravox,
Swell Maps,
Cymande,
EPMD,
Pierre Henry,
The Detroit Cobras,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
Con Funk Shun,
Joensuu 1685,
The Monochrome Set,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marc Almond,
Ten City,
The Dead C,
Mars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Leaves,
Au Pairs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Flamin' Groovies,
Depeche Mode,
Todd Terry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grauzone,
Mary Jane Girls,
John Cale,
Minor Threat,
The Golliwogs,
Don Cherry,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.