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 East Timor and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 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 Livin' Joy to the disco 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
The Blackbyrds,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Electric Prunes,
The Count Five,
Shoche,
Simply Red,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Magazine,
Alphaville,
Moss Icon,
Jandek,
The Trojans,
kango's stein massive,
Public Enemy,
Idris Muhammad,
Franke,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minor Threat,
Pole,
Yellowson,
The Gun Club,
Rod Modell,
The Wake,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Black Dice,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Drexciya,
Ponytail,
Maleditus Sound,
John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wire,
The Residents,
Lalann,
Stockholm Monsters,
Y Pants,
Ludus,
Echospace,
Wolf Eyes,
Thee Headcoats,
T.S.O.L.,
Aloha Tigers,
Audionom,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
DJ Sneak,
Eli Mardock,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rites of Spring,
Colin Newman,
ABBA,
The Pretty Things,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.