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 Monaco and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mad Mike to the jazz 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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Duran Duran,
Essential Logic,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lower 48,
Aloha Tigers,
Godley & Creme,
Von Mondo,
Ornette Coleman,
The Alarm Clocks,
Yaz,
One Last Wish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quando Quango,
Soul II Soul,
Fear,
Vladislav Delay,
Mr. Review,
Tim Buckley,
Black Moon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Electric Prunes,
The Young Rascals,
Peter and Kerry,
Joyce Sims,
Steve Hackett,
K-Klass,
Idris Muhammad,
Dave Gahan,
FM Einheit,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bizarre Inc.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
Cabaret Voltaire,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Stetsasonic,
Gastr Del Sol,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shuggie Otis,
Darondo,
Fluxion,
Derrick Morgan,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
U.S. Maple,
Nico,
New Order,
Fatback Band,
Sonic Youth,
Ohio Players,
Gang Starr,
Harry Pussy,
Rotary Connection,
The New Christs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Flipper,
Pierre Henry,
Khruangbin,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.