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 Austria and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marmalade to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Minnie Riperton,
Kenny Larkin,
Maleditus Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Matthew Halsall,
Bad Manners,
Grey Daturas,
Wire,
The American Breed,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Womack,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Erasure,
Kayak,
Barbara Tucker,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harmonia,
Soul Sonic Force,
Animal Collective,
Icehouse,
Deepchord,
Neil Young,
Easy Going,
Moss Icon,
Yaz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Newcleus,
John Cale,
Piero Umiliani,
Colin Newman,
Moebius,
Faust,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pulsallama,
Freddie Wadling,
Fort Wilson Riot,
La Düsseldorf,
Mary Jane Girls,
David Bowie,
cv313,
The Music Machine,
The Sound,
The Star Department,
Magazine,
Joe Finger,
Tubeway Army,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Tremeloes,
Connie Case,
Sparks,
Pylon,
Shoche,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Coltrane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Motions,
Buzzcocks,
Goldenarms,
Crime,
Vainqueur,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.