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 Cyprus and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bluetip to the techno 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
The Victims,
Crispy Ambulance,
Infiniti,
Public Image Ltd.,
Procol Harum,
The Detroit Cobras,
Trumans Water,
Alton Ellis,
Amon Düül,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Young Marble Giants,
The Monks,
Joy Division,
Newcleus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ponytail,
Todd Terry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Panda Bear,
The Grass Roots,
Prince Buster,
Shuggie Otis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dual Sessions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Anthony Braxton,
Motorama,
Steve Hackett,
Banda Bassotti,
Harry Pussy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Surgeon,
Popol Vuh,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jerry's Kids,
Aaron Thompson,
Glenn Branca,
Wolf Eyes,
Loose Ends,
The Tremeloes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barbara Tucker,
Mantronix,
Jeru the Damaja,
Absolute Body Control,
Archie Shepp,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sparks,
The Zeros,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Christie,
Judy Mowatt,
Kenny Larkin,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dirtbombs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.