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 Kiribati and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Moebius to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
10cc,
The Names,
Masters at Work,
Blancmange,
Simply Red,
Faust,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Red Krayola,
X-Ray Spex,
Wire,
Aloha Tigers,
Sarah Menescal,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
Jacob Miller,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joensuu 1685,
Michelle Simonal,
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
Pantytec,
the Soft Cell,
The Gap Band,
The Cowsills,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeff Lynne,
Oneida,
James White and The Blacks,
Quadrant,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tres Demented,
Traffic Nightmare,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
Fatback Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kerri Chandler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Warren Ellis,
Scratch Acid,
Crooked Eye,
Scan 7,
Vainqueur,
Porter Ricks,
Cheater Slicks,
Yusef Lateef,
The Martian,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Bourne,
The Blues Magoos,
Deepchord,
Eric Dolphy,
The Toasters,
Panda Bear,
The Stooges,
Khruangbin,
The Divine Comedy,
LL Cool J,
R.M.O.,
Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti.
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.