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 Manila.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Wire to the punk 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mantronix,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Stiv Bators,
the Soft Cell,
Black Moon,
ABC,
Depeche Mode,
Charles Mingus,
Cymande,
Soul II Soul,
Amon Düül,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Offenders,
Heaven 17,
Kas Product,
Neil Young,
In Retrospect,
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
The Wake,
Babytalk,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Gories,
Lightning Bolt,
Index,
Prince Buster,
John Holt,
David Axelrod,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quantec,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Count Five,
Banda Bassotti,
The Moleskins,
Wasted Youth,
Bobby Womack,
Roxette,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ice-T,
Qualms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Todd Rundgren,
Sällskapet,
The Black Dice,
The Star Department,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
Adolescents,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Certain Ratio,
Ponytail,
Unrelated Segments,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker,
Oneida,
Arab on Radar,
Idris Muhammad,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-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.