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 Russia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Chris & Cosey to the jazz 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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Unwound,
Soul II Soul,
The Angels of Light,
Robert Wyatt,
Amon Düül,
Robert Hood,
Thee Headcoats,
a-ha,
Kerri Chandler,
Outsiders,
New Age Steppers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Buzzcocks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
John Foxx,
Wire,
Rites of Spring,
Althea and Donna,
Aural Exciters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Crime,
Masters at Work,
Alison Limerick,
Leonard Cohen,
Cymande,
The Names,
The Young Rascals,
Letta Mbulu,
Barrington Levy,
The Birthday Party,
Spoonie Gee,
Scientists,
Neu!,
Black Pus,
Warren Ellis,
Ornette Coleman,
The Grass Roots,
Connie Case,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Young Marble Giants,
kango's stein massive,
Simply Red,
Fluxion,
Pussy Galore,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Circle Jerks,
Ossler,
OOIOO,
The Modern Lovers,
La Düsseldorf,
Fat Boys,
Brick,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeff Mills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Lynne,
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.