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 Sri Lanka and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet 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 New Order 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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Popol Vuh,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wasted Youth,
The Cramps,
Delon & Dalcan,
Erasure,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Josef K,
Joey Negro,
Cameo,
Zapp,
Blake Baxter,
The Litter,
Michelle Simonal,
OOIOO,
Dave Gahan,
These Immortal Souls,
Eden Ahbez,
Excepter,
Con Funk Shun,
Blossom Toes,
Skaos,
Alton Ellis,
The Kinks,
Piero Umiliani,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Little Man,
World's Most,
the Soft Cell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
The Slits,
Jeff Lynne,
Public Enemy,
Procol Harum,
Aswad,
Interpol,
Soft Cell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jacques Brel,
Electric Prunes,
Anakelly,
Chris Corsano,
Dead Boys,
Eli Mardock,
The Dirtbombs,
Laurel Aitken,
Infiniti,
The Selecter,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Niagra,
June Days,
Ultravox,
Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Sixth Finger,
Crooked Eye,
The Smoke,
UT,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fluxion,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.