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 Latvia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 10cc to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Eric Dolphy,
Chris Corsano,
Intrusion,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Popol Vuh,
Barry Ungar,
Public Enemy,
La Düsseldorf,
The Five Americans,
John Holt,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rapeman,
Aswad,
Camberwell Now,
Gil Scott Heron,
In Retrospect,
Ultravox,
Kenny Larkin,
Andrew Hill,
Scratch Acid,
Groovy Waters,
Dark Day,
Barbara Tucker,
Bang On A Can,
These Immortal Souls,
Scott Walker,
Ten City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronan,
Whodini,
K-Klass,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pantaleimon,
Ohio Players,
Amazonics,
Stockholm Monsters,
Peter & Gordon,
the Germs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Frankie Knuckles,
Black Moon,
The Last Poets,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pole,
Sarah Menescal,
Stetsasonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Divine Comedy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camouflage,
David McCallum,
Cymande,
John Lydon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kerri Chandler,
Siglo XX,
Cameo,
Bronski Beat,
ABC,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.