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 Yemen and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Agitation Free to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
These Immortal Souls,
Alton Ellis,
Avey Tare,
The Grass Roots,
Harry Pussy,
Piero Umiliani,
Johnny Osbourne,
Patti Smith,
Colin Newman,
Pole,
Jacob Miller,
B.T. Express,
Soft Machine,
Marvin Gaye,
Grey Daturas,
Ice-T,
Carl Craig,
Suicide,
Juan Atkins,
Q65,
Ultravox,
the Bar-Kays,
Hardrive,
The Birthday Party,
Jawbox,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
The Human League,
Amon Düül,
Roxy Music,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yusef Lateef,
Pierre Henry,
New Order,
Bill Wells,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mark Hollis,
R.M.O.,
48th St. Collective,
The Index,
Newcleus,
The Pop Group,
Eli Mardock,
Wolf Eyes,
The Buckinghams,
Procol Harum,
Faraquet,
Oneida,
The Raincoats,
ABC,
Neu!,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Fire Engines,
Zero Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scientists,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.