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 Lithuania and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Negative Approach to the electroclash 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Todd Rundgren,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker,
Cluster,
Agent Orange,
The Motions,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Associates,
Make Up,
World's Most,
Arab on Radar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Franke,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alison Limerick,
Popol Vuh,
Arthur Verocai,
Livin' Joy,
Heaven 17,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cymande,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Electric Prunes,
Thompson Twins,
Depeche Mode,
Man Parrish,
The Searchers,
The Young Rascals,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quando Quango,
Kerri Chandler,
Pere Ubu,
Surgeon,
Colin Newman,
The Beau Brummels,
Fatback Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rufus Thomas,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fall,
Lou Reed,
Laurel Aitken,
Kayak,
Yellowson,
Sister Nancy,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Black Dice,
The Tremeloes,
Chris Corsano,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Real Kids,
Los Fastidios,
New York Dolls,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.