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 Bulgaria and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Monolake to the rap 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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Half Japanese,
Buzzcocks,
Soulsonic Force,
Susan Cadogan,
Faust,
Inner City,
Skaos,
Sugar Minott,
Boogie Down Productions,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
ABBA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
Bizarre Inc.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Cale,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Das Ding,
Stiv Bators,
The Trojans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The New Christs,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Sherman,
Avey Tare,
Lebanon Hanover,
a-ha,
Steve Hackett,
Jeff Lynne,
Schoolly D,
Gang Green,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Henry Cow,
Technova,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Country Teasers,
Kayak,
Cecil Taylor,
New Age Steppers,
Thee Headcoats,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joyce Sims,
Delta 5,
These Immortal Souls,
The Divine Comedy,
Grey Daturas,
Sonic Youth,
Kenny Larkin,
Gichy Dan,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.