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 Lebanon and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin 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 Mantronix to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Laurel Aitken,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bad Manners,
Anthony Braxton,
The Walker Brothers,
Roxy Music,
The Leaves,
A Certain Ratio,
Fad Gadget,
John Cale,
Little Man,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
June Days,
Fugazi,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scientists,
Joey Negro,
Radiohead,
The Neon Judgement,
The Remains,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Sherman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Happenings,
Sällskapet,
H. Thieme,
Pulsallama,
Delon & Dalcan,
X-101,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Stereo Dub,
Pere Ubu,
Chris Corsano,
Pierre Henry,
The Names,
Sister Nancy,
Deakin,
The Star Department,
Susan Cadogan,
Goldenarms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Womack,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moby Grape,
Henry Cow,
Letta Mbulu,
John Holt,
The Residents,
Nico,
Sun City Girls,
Man Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cowsills,
Maurizio,
Al Stewart,
Bang On A Can,
Faraquet,
Lucky Dragons,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.