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 Barbados and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 The Names 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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Connie Case,
Bauhaus,
Main Source,
Alphaville,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Birthday Party,
Vainqueur,
Young Marble Giants,
10cc,
Absolute Body Control,
The Associates,
Smog,
Circle Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
Barbara Tucker,
Oneida,
The Wake,
The Five Americans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
PIL,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Buzzcocks,
Camouflage,
Rapeman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kenny Larkin,
Hot Snakes,
The Human League,
Das Ding,
Essential Logic,
Warren Ellis,
The Dead C,
Lower 48,
Youth Brigade,
The Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dirtbombs,
The Move,
Bluetip,
Ohio Players,
The Selecter,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Divine Comedy,
Alton Ellis,
Roxette,
The Stooges,
Kevin Saunderson,
F. McDonald,
The Leaves,
the Sonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pulsallama,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
the Bar-Kays,
Minnie Riperton,
Accadde A,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.