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 Serbia and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pole to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
the Bar-Kays,
The Motions,
David Bowie,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
New York Dolls,
Junior Murvin,
Whodini,
Joe Smooth,
Kaleidoscope,
the Swans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Prince Buster,
Joy Division,
Au Pairs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Hardrive,
Cymande,
Stetsasonic,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Max Romeo,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Byrd,
Kayak,
Subhumans,
The Moody Blues,
Tim Buckley,
Siglo XX,
Joensuu 1685,
Nico,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Tubeway Army,
Duran Duran,
Amon Düül,
Rakim,
Aaron Thompson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cybotron,
China Crisis,
Alton Ellis,
Bill Near,
Oblivians,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lindisfarne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minny Pops,
Pole,
Magma,
Adolescents,
Echospace,
Ken Boothe,
Robert Görl,
Kas Product,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Scrapy,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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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.