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 Liechtenstein and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the grime 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Hashim,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joy Division,
The Fuzztones,
The Blackbyrds,
The Mojo Men,
Scion,
Yazoo,
UT,
Royal Trux,
Scott Walker,
Alison Limerick,
Godley & Creme,
B.T. Express,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
The Count Five,
The Beau Brummels,
The Grass Roots,
Jeff Mills,
Carl Craig,
The Cramps,
Michelle Simonal,
Index,
Marshall Jefferson,
FM Einheit,
Second Layer,
Mark Hollis,
Bootsy Collins,
The Misunderstood,
Y Pants,
The Monochrome Set,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bauhaus,
Marine Girls,
The Five Americans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Moebius,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Funkadelic,
Crooked Eye,
Absolute Body Control,
Yaz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
EPMD,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deadbeat,
The Trojans,
Pole,
The Standells,
Urselle,
Terry Callier,
Swell Maps,
Sound Behaviour,
The Modern Lovers,
The Residents,
Marc Almond,
Eurythmics,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visage,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.