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 Azerbaijan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Au Pairs to the disco 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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Negative Approach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stetsasonic,
Con Funk Shun,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sun Ra,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
The Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
T. Rex,
The Trojans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Iggy Pop,
Eric Copeland,
The Last Poets,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Franke,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sixth Finger,
cv313,
Animal Collective,
Joe Smooth,
Little Man,
Zero Boys,
LL Cool J,
Aural Exciters,
Echospace,
Average White Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nico,
Sam Rivers,
Cheater Slicks,
Fugazi,
The Toasters,
Bush Tetras,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Barracudas,
The Buckinghams,
Lyres,
Brand Nubian,
The Misunderstood,
Darondo,
New York Dolls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Black Sheep,
Banda Bassotti,
Glenn Branca,
Matthew Halsall,
Harry Pussy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dennis Brown,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.