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 Tanzania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Minutemen to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Gang Green,
Bobby Womack,
Godley & Creme,
Saccharine Trust,
Eli Mardock,
One Last Wish,
Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlback,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Alison Limerick,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Heaven 17,
Lucky Dragons,
The Red Krayola,
Sam Rivers,
Niagra,
Idris Muhammad,
Ponytail,
Ken Boothe,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Byrd,
Little Man,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crooked Eye,
Graham Central Station,
kango's stein massive,
The Divine Comedy,
Arab on Radar,
Television,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lower 48,
Warsaw,
Tears for Fears,
Radio Birdman,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Newcleus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Drexciya,
Magma,
Mark Hollis,
Byron Stingily,
Joy Division,
Deadbeat,
The Modern Lovers,
The Count Five,
Alice Coltrane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kurtis Blow,
Flipper,
The Happenings,
Pylon,
Eve St. Jones,
Panda Bear,
Scion,
Erasure,
Joe Smooth,
Hasil Adkins,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.