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 Croatia and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Scan 7 to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
MC5,
Sex Pistols,
the Soft Cell,
Leonard Cohen,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Model 500,
Dual Sessions,
Don Cherry,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cameo,
Byron Stingily,
Boredoms,
Terrestrial Tones,
Heaven 17,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Black Dice,
The Golliwogs,
Sugar Minott,
Mantronix,
Harmonia,
a-ha,
Con Funk Shun,
Roxette,
Talk Talk,
F. McDonald,
Eric Copeland,
Bang On A Can,
Marine Girls,
Delta 5,
Livin' Joy,
Ten City,
Bobby Womack,
MDC,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantaleimon,
Soft Machine,
Circle Jerks,
Tubeway Army,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Residents,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dave Gahan,
Crime,
the Bar-Kays,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wire,
Khruangbin,
Howard Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
The Barracudas,
Eve St. Jones,
Reagan Youth,
Yazoo,
OOIOO,
the Slits,
The Dirtbombs,
Archie Shepp,
Main Source,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.