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 Antigua and from London.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Kinks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Pylon,
New Order,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mummies,
Groovy Waters,
Mandrill,
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dead Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Jacques Brel,
Joey Negro,
Cymande,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Pretty Things,
Suburban Knight,
The Fugs,
Minor Threat,
Carl Craig,
Faust,
Joy Division,
Colin Newman,
Albert Ayler,
Nation of Ulysses,
EPMD,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sugar Minott,
Ohio Players,
The Vogues,
Throbbing Gristle,
Graham Central Station,
Camberwell Now,
Deepchord,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sällskapet,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Shuggie Otis,
The Smoke,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barrington Levy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Icehouse,
Iggy Pop,
Terry Callier,
The Associates,
Aswad,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pantaleimon,
Nas,
Jawbox,
Television Personalities,
Mo-Dettes,
Sandy B,
Cybotron,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.