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 Uruguay and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron 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 Urselle to the crunk 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rekid,
Basic Channel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang Green,
Anthony Braxton,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
JFA,
Lakeside,
FM Einheit,
Drexciya,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Moody Blues,
Sixth Finger,
In Retrospect,
Youth Brigade,
T.S.O.L.,
Amon Düül II,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cecil Taylor,
Flash Fearless,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New York Dolls,
John Foxx,
Pussy Galore,
Stetsasonic,
Wings,
Alice Coltrane,
The Toasters,
Judy Mowatt,
The Kinks,
Suicide,
Cymande,
Excepter,
Interpol,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funkadelic,
Audionom,
Newcleus,
Tres Demented,
Sex Pistols,
Mark Hollis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Franke,
John Cale,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scrapy,
Funky Four + One,
Jacques Brel,
Dead Boys,
Roy Ayers,
Lower 48,
Fluxion,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Inner City,
The Durutti Column,
Soft Machine,
Easy Going,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Connie Case,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.