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 Sri Lanka and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Depeche Mode to the disco 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Spoonie Gee,
Mandrill,
Harmonia,
Theoretical Girls,
Monks,
The Offenders,
Barry Ungar,
The Cowsills,
Sun City Girls,
Organ,
The Divine Comedy,
Slave,
Al Stewart,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gang Starr,
PIL,
Fad Gadget,
Tropical Tobacco,
La Düsseldorf,
Index,
Negative Approach,
Cal Tjader,
Schoolly D,
Livin' Joy,
The Techniques,
Grandmaster Flash,
Faust,
Duran Duran,
Roy Ayers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pierre Henry,
Skriet,
Franke,
The Wake,
Scrapy,
LL Cool J,
Darondo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantytec,
Audionom,
Derrick Morgan,
Main Source,
The American Breed,
Swans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Can,
DJ Style,
Lou Reed,
Joe Finger,
The Cure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Circle Jerks,
Sister Nancy,
Vainqueur,
Freddie Wadling,
Don Cherry,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cameo,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.