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 Turkey and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pierre Henry to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reagan Youth,
Skriet,
Little Man,
Gang Green,
Sonic Youth,
Nik Kershaw,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sun Ra,
Skarface,
Don Cherry,
Depeche Mode,
Yusef Lateef,
Jeff Mills,
The Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
John Foxx,
Minny Pops,
JFA,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soft Machine,
The Pop Group,
Oblivians,
Ten City,
Infiniti,
Iggy Pop,
Youth Brigade,
Sarah Menescal,
Trumans Water,
Tomorrow,
Robert Görl,
The Wake,
Stetsasonic,
Suicide,
Echospace,
Yaz,
Intrusion,
Kenny Larkin,
The Mojo Men,
Derrick Morgan,
Pylon,
MDC,
Kas Product,
The Music Machine,
Crime,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Anthony Braxton,
Subhumans,
Scan 7,
The Moleskins,
Alison Limerick,
Thee Headcoats,
Donald Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
Mars,
Minutemen,
D'Angelo,
Malaria!,
Angry Samoans,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.