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 New Zealand and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Underground Resistance to the electroclash 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Niagra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Toasters,
T. Rex,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Laurel Aitken,
Surgeon,
Eddi Front,
Skarface,
Johnny Osbourne,
Brand Nubian,
MC5,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
AZ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marine Girls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Terry,
Joey Negro,
Negative Approach,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pylon,
Bobby Womack,
Peter & Gordon,
Iggy Pop,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scientists,
The Last Poets,
Nils Olav,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wings,
Cecil Taylor,
The Barracudas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bauhaus,
Sixth Finger,
Pole,
Mr. Review,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter and Kerry,
The Electric Prunes,
Monks,
Mars,
Ponytail,
Brass Construction,
Bronski Beat,
Dawn Penn,
Electric Prunes,
Fat Boys,
The Young Rascals,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.