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 Ecuador and from New York.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Minnie Riperton to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Simply Red,
the Association,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Cure,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultravox,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Panda Bear,
Yaz,
Roxette,
Grey Daturas,
Eve St. Jones,
The Star Department,
Wolf Eyes,
The Martian,
Scientists,
Bush Tetras,
The Standells,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Terrestrial Tones,
Colin Newman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Toni Rubio,
The Divine Comedy,
Circle Jerks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Graham Central Station,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aaron Thompson,
Metal Thangz,
CMW,
Freddie Wadling,
Can,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fall,
Kevin Saunderson,
ABC,
Lightning Bolt,
Boredoms,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Residents,
Clear Light,
The Gories,
Black Bananas,
Matthew Bourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Porter Ricks,
Public Enemy,
The Mojo Men,
Interpol,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fuzztones,
David McCallum,
Amazonics,
Moss Icon,
Half Japanese,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.