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 Honduras and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 CMW to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Scientists,
Minny Pops,
The Beau Brummels,
China Crisis,
Flash Fearless,
Sound Behaviour,
Swans,
Spoonie Gee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Moby Grape,
Pole,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Holt,
Lou Reed,
Supertramp,
Al Stewart,
Nation of Ulysses,
Matthew Halsall,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Star Department,
Fear,
Massinfluence,
Soft Machine,
Tom Boy,
Slick Rick,
MC5,
The Tremeloes,
Y Pants,
Infiniti,
Inner City,
The Golliwogs,
Franke,
The Slackers,
Iggy Pop,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Agent Orange,
Adolescents,
Model 500,
Deadbeat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cure,
Josef K,
Boz Scaggs,
Arcadia,
Wasted Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Blues Magoos,
Donny Hathaway,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Vogues,
Aural Exciters,
Jacques Brel,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Order,
ABBA,
Kas Product,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.