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 Kosovo and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Pagans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Shoche,
Mad Mike,
Black Moon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dorothy Ashby,
Audionom,
Sound Behaviour,
DJ Sneak,
Black Sheep,
Whodini,
Harmonia,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
EPMD,
The Cowsills,
Drive Like Jehu,
Porter Ricks,
Rod Modell,
Second Layer,
Surgeon,
Agitation Free,
the Human League,
Piero Umiliani,
Joensuu 1685,
Underground Resistance,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Parry Music,
Bad Manners,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tom Boy,
Nick Fraelich,
Janne Schatter,
Public Enemy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
cv313,
Inner City,
Duran Duran,
Wolf Eyes,
Flash Fearless,
Barbara Tucker,
the Fania All-Stars,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Music Machine,
Josef K,
Sight & Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
Unrelated Segments,
This Heat,
ABC,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DJ Style,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marshall Jefferson,
Supertramp,
Excepter,
Can,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.