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 Azerbaijan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Bush Tetras to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Warren Ellis,
CMW,
Pet Shop Boys,
Slick Rick,
Aaron Thompson,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
Roxy Music,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Schoolly D,
Moby Grape,
Bob Dylan,
the Germs,
Ornette Coleman,
Pole,
Bill Wells,
Yazoo,
Chris & Cosey,
Basic Channel,
The Invisible,
Ice-T,
Simply Red,
Joe Finger,
Country Teasers,
David Axelrod,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Selecter,
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Lynne,
Scan 7,
Technova,
Stetsasonic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sonics,
Siglo XX,
Young Marble Giants,
John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scrapy,
X-102,
Amazonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dead Boys,
Vainqueur,
FM Einheit,
Interpol,
The Birthday Party,
Masters at Work,
Ohio Players,
The Slackers,
DJ Style,
Fat Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amon Düül,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pagans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.