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 Greece and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Adolescents to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Names,
Radiopuhelimet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Thompson Twins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
OOIOO,
Dawn Penn,
The Seeds,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Avey Tare,
X-101,
Schoolly D,
Unwound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Crash Course in Science,
Camberwell Now,
The Blues Magoos,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joe Smooth,
Unrelated Segments,
Minutemen,
The Cramps,
Grey Daturas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jacques Brel,
Marcia Griffiths,
Swell Maps,
Radiohead,
Deadbeat,
Niagra,
The Leaves,
Bill Wells,
Erykah Badu,
The Gories,
Ossler,
Talk Talk,
Steve Hackett,
Black Flag,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kayak,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Görl,
Reagan Youth,
Metal Thangz,
The Doors,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Index,
Technova,
Neu!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
Los Fastidios,
Skriet,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moby Grape,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Godley & Creme,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.