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 Maldives and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Gun Club to the rap 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Eden Ahbez,
Talk Talk,
Jeff Mills,
Second Layer,
Carl Craig,
E-Dancer,
K-Klass,
Mark Hollis,
The Slackers,
Bob Dylan,
Wire,
Unrelated Segments,
Can,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Depeche Mode,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispian St. Peters,
Junior Murvin,
The Knickerbockers,
Delta 5,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Urselle,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Motorama,
Minutemen,
Kas Product,
Duran Duran,
Dark Day,
Black Bananas,
Symarip,
The Doors,
R.M.O.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sound Behaviour,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sarah Menescal,
Smog,
Guru Guru,
Maleditus Sound,
Moby Grape,
China Crisis,
The Vogues,
Gichy Dan,
The Misunderstood,
The Dead C,
The Invisible,
June Days,
A Certain Ratio,
Yusef Lateef,
Brothers Johnson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Residents,
the Normal,
Ronan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minor Threat,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Television,
Lou Reed,
The Mummies,
Alphaville,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.