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 Antigua and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Saints to the disco 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Vladislav Delay,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fear,
The Doors,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lebanon Hanover,
World's Most,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Television,
Max Romeo,
B.T. Express,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soft Cell,
Bootsy Collins,
Malaria!,
Youth Brigade,
Archie Shepp,
Dennis Brown,
Pylon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fad Gadget,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Al Stewart,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joe Finger,
La Düsseldorf,
Pierre Henry,
The Gories,
Cymande,
The Dead C,
Popol Vuh,
The Mummies,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neu!,
Darondo,
Flash Fearless,
Grey Daturas,
Agent Orange,
Crooked Eye,
Jimmy McGriff,
DNA,
Rod Modell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Traffic Nightmare,
Nation of Ulysses,
Can,
Niagra,
Sound Behaviour,
The Monochrome Set,
Heaven 17,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Angry Samoans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monolake,
Rufus Thomas,
Nico,
The Skatalites,
Davy DMX,
Average White Band,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.