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 Sudan and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Sonny Sharrock to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ludus,
Zapp,
Letta Mbulu,
Ronan,
Sonic Youth,
Buzzcocks,
Boredoms,
Idris Muhammad,
Accadde A,
Gang Green,
Trumans Water,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boogie Down Productions,
One Last Wish,
Cabaret Voltaire,
8 Eyed Spy,
Adolescents,
Funky Four + One,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Neu!,
The Vogues,
OOIOO,
Goldenarms,
Franke,
Nirvana,
Kurtis Blow,
Television,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cluster,
Suburban Knight,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Litter,
Tears for Fears,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Stereo Dub,
Rapeman,
Country Teasers,
Joyce Sims,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Stooges,
The Moleskins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minutemen,
Tom Boy,
ABC,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Max Romeo,
Hasil Adkins,
The Misunderstood,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.