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 Tuvalu and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jerry's Kids to the rap 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Lower 48,
Simply Red,
Hasil Adkins,
The Toasters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
X-101,
The New Christs,
Adolescents,
The Neon Judgement,
Gichy Dan,
Cluster,
Cheater Slicks,
Moss Icon,
The Smoke,
The Buckinghams,
Joensuu 1685,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Busters,
DNA,
Kenny Larkin,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang Starr,
kango's stein massive,
Thompson Twins,
Ludus,
The Cramps,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Banda Bassotti,
Con Funk Shun,
Talk Talk,
Zero Boys,
Supertramp,
Marcia Griffiths,
Angry Samoans,
The Alarm Clocks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Japan,
Bad Manners,
The Human League,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rites of Spring,
Rosa Yemen,
Sex Pistols,
Quando Quango,
Pylon,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang Green,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Excepter,
Minutemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Heaven 17,
Drive Like Jehu,
Qualms,
Zapp,
Donald Byrd,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.