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 Vietnam and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Jeff Mills,
Hot Snakes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sällskapet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pharoah Sanders,
Outsiders,
The Sound,
Marine Girls,
Bad Manners,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slackers,
Yaz,
Prince Buster,
Loose Ends,
Slave,
Pantaleimon,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Black Moon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Deepchord,
ABBA,
The Black Dice,
Idris Muhammad,
Severed Heads,
Sex Pistols,
The Leaves,
Eden Ahbez,
Stereo Dub,
Faraquet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amon Düül II,
Visage,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Flash Fearless,
Shuggie Otis,
Newcleus,
Aswad,
the Human League,
Altered Images,
The Raincoats,
Essential Logic,
Maurizio,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kas Product,
The Motions,
The Evens,
Matthew Halsall,
Morten Harket,
Bluetip,
Spoonie Gee,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rites of Spring,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Grass Roots,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.