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 Ecuador and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Unwound to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fugs,
Howard Jones,
Icehouse,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Zeros,
Eric Dolphy,
Visage,
The Litter,
Isaac Hayes,
Crispian St. Peters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DNA,
The Knickerbockers,
UT,
Zapp,
Shuggie Otis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Slits,
The Dead C,
The Pretty Things,
Khruangbin,
The Fortunes,
Laurel Aitken,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joe Smooth,
a-ha,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Velvet Underground,
OOIOO,
Half Japanese,
the Germs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Magma,
The Neon Judgement,
Scott Walker,
Josef K,
The Smiths,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobby Womack,
The Moleskins,
Henry Cow,
Animal Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Sun City Girls,
The Seeds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Cowsills,
The Selecter,
The Residents,
Massinfluence,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Tremeloes,
The Electric Prunes,
The Busters,
Minutemen,
Pagans,
Mark Hollis,
Erykah Badu,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.