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 Rwanda and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Pulsallama to the grunge 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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Bronski Beat,
Essential Logic,
Sex Pistols,
Gerry Rafferty,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mojo Men,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Techniques,
Bill Near,
Eric Dolphy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kaleidoscope,
Gregory Isaacs,
U.S. Maple,
Scratch Acid,
Roxette,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tubeway Army,
The United States of America,
X-101,
Agent Orange,
The Velvet Underground,
Yaz,
Ohio Players,
Interpol,
The Raincoats,
Barry Ungar,
The Busters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Foxx,
Black Bananas,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Flag,
Lungfish,
The Martian,
Circle Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
Steve Hackett,
DNA,
The Alarm Clocks,
Chris & Cosey,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gun Club,
Prince Buster,
EPMD,
Yellowson,
The Knickerbockers,
The Doobie Brothers,
AZ,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pagans,
cv313,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marshall Jefferson,
Johnny Clarke,
Gabor Szabo,
Young Marble Giants,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.