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 Palau and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Divine Comedy,
F. McDonald,
The Count Five,
Pantaleimon,
Unrelated Segments,
Yusef Lateef,
Wally Richardson,
DJ Sneak,
The Barracudas,
Deadbeat,
Gastr Del Sol,
UT,
Siglo XX,
Ponytail,
Pere Ubu,
Spandau Ballet,
Zero Boys,
The Sonics,
Newcleus,
The Birthday Party,
Yazoo,
Slave,
Agitation Free,
Monolake,
Technova,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Star Department,
Wings,
Harmonia,
Shuggie Otis,
Grauzone,
John Holt,
Dual Sessions,
Schoolly D,
Essential Logic,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rotary Connection,
Arcadia,
Fat Boys,
Scott Walker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sun Ra,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jeff Lynne,
CMW,
Fear,
Wire,
Leonard Cohen,
Joey Negro,
Sonic Youth,
Desert Stars,
Amazonics,
The Gun Club,
Cecil Taylor,
Tommy Roe,
Gregory Isaacs,
Icehouse,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.