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 Eritrea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Tomorrow to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
The Star Department,
Saccharine Trust,
Lindisfarne,
Ludus,
Sugar Minott,
Eden Ahbez,
Sun City Girls,
Sällskapet,
Lee Hazlewood,
Minnie Riperton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang of Four,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Womack,
Archie Shepp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Josef K,
Aural Exciters,
Letta Mbulu,
Ultra Naté,
the Swans,
Fat Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Blancmange,
Marc Almond,
MDC,
The Detroit Cobras,
Moby Grape,
Ken Boothe,
The Doobie Brothers,
Half Japanese,
The Slits,
Depeche Mode,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Slits,
Ash Ra Tempel,
cv313,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Bobby Hutcherson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Agitation Free,
Derrick May,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drexciya,
Idris Muhammad,
Fluxion,
The Electric Prunes,
Camberwell Now,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobby Sherman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nick Fraelich,
Public Enemy,
Blake Baxter,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Hill,
Alphaville,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.