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 Nepal and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
D'Angelo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sarah Menescal,
Electric Prunes,
Vainqueur,
The Searchers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lower 48,
Can,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Icehouse,
The Dirtbombs,
Aaron Thompson,
Amon Düül II,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The New Christs,
Eden Ahbez,
Hashim,
Alison Limerick,
Scott Walker,
Agent Orange,
Mad Mike,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Stooges,
Eddi Front,
Anthony Braxton,
Lakeside,
Tommy Roe,
Robert Hood,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sight & Sound,
Basic Channel,
10cc,
Brand Nubian,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hot Snakes,
Negative Approach,
Rapeman,
a-ha,
Al Stewart,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Human League,
Livin' Joy,
Khruangbin,
The Fugs,
Silicon Teens,
Babytalk,
Siglo XX,
Minny Pops,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crime,
Bobby Sherman,
Freddie Wadling,
Surgeon,
Sparks,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.