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 Chad and from Tehran.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Wake to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Thompson Twins,
Oneida,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Babytalk,
The Toasters,
David Bowie,
D'Angelo,
Japan,
Echospace,
Funky Four + One,
Massinfluence,
Rod Modell,
Tubeway Army,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roger Hodgson,
Danielle Patucci,
E-Dancer,
Whodini,
The Standells,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Slits,
Chris Corsano,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Golliwogs,
Underground Resistance,
Sun City Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cybotron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Man Eating Sloth,
Das Ding,
Graham Central Station,
The Wake,
The Busters,
Aural Exciters,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Soft Cell,
Toni Rubio,
Donny Hathaway,
Moss Icon,
Sugar Minott,
Pere Ubu,
Reagan Youth,
The Dead C,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soft Machine,
Cheater Slicks,
Erasure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Matthew Halsall,
The Move,
Radiohead,
The United States of America,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Smog,
Loose Ends,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.