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 Croatia and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Idris Muhammad to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
The Gap Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Panda Bear,
Sarah Menescal,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Remains,
Soft Cell,
Animal Collective,
Traffic Nightmare,
Second Layer,
The Black Dice,
Spandau Ballet,
Scrapy,
Organ,
Quantec,
China Crisis,
James White and The Blacks,
The Monks,
PIL,
AZ,
Bauhaus,
Pole,
Joensuu 1685,
Public Image Ltd.,
Minor Threat,
Roxette,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Morten Harket,
The Red Krayola,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
Delta 5,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Alton Ellis,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
JFA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
T. Rex,
Stetsasonic,
A Certain Ratio,
Jimmy McGriff,
Clear Light,
Todd Rundgren,
Average White Band,
Eve St. Jones,
The Barracudas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rakim,
Yusef Lateef,
Pet Shop Boys,
D'Angelo,
Sun City Girls,
Tears for Fears,
Drive Like Jehu,
Vainqueur,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gabor Szabo,
Max Romeo,
The New Christs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.