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 Dominica and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pharoah Sanders 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
The Walker Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
Japan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Drexciya,
Minor Threat,
Skaos,
Sister Nancy,
Index,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Vainqueur,
Loose Ends,
Moby Grape,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bluetip,
Fluxion,
ABC,
Gastr Del Sol,
Half Japanese,
DJ Style,
Jerry's Kids,
Fad Gadget,
Gabor Szabo,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
The Golliwogs,
The Last Poets,
Soul II Soul,
Second Layer,
The Detroit Cobras,
New York Dolls,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nas,
One Last Wish,
Crash Course in Science,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fela Kuti,
Von Mondo,
Marine Girls,
Animal Collective,
The Knickerbockers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultravox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Radiopuhelimet,
Young Marble Giants,
The Invisible,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Divine Comedy,
Adolescents,
Soft Machine,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blake Baxter,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.