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 Bahrain and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the jazz 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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Pantytec,
Tropical Tobacco,
Don Cherry,
PIL,
Quadrant,
Dennis Brown,
Television,
Alphaville,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brass Construction,
Technova,
Bizarre Inc.,
Surgeon,
Lungfish,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Last Poets,
Michelle Simonal,
Wasted Youth,
Joensuu 1685,
Panda Bear,
Pylon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
June Days,
F. McDonald,
Matthew Bourne,
Scrapy,
Ornette Coleman,
Gichy Dan,
Dave Gahan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minor Threat,
Robert Hood,
Loose Ends,
A Certain Ratio,
Soft Cell,
Monks,
Magazine,
Hasil Adkins,
the Soft Cell,
Alice Coltrane,
Mars,
Kas Product,
The Music Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Five Americans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Schoolly D,
Rekid,
Byron Stingily,
Aloha Tigers,
The Moleskins,
Clear Light,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q65,
The Walker Brothers,
The Slits,
Sarah Menescal,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.