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 Azerbaijan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Absolute Body Control to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lucky Dragons,
Thee Headcoats,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
Matthew Halsall,
Slick Rick,
Tubeway Army,
Robert Görl,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fire Engines,
KRS-One,
T.S.O.L.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Leonard Cohen,
Erasure,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Schoolly D,
World's Most,
Babytalk,
Camberwell Now,
Hot Snakes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Altered Images,
Easy Going,
Second Layer,
Mission of Burma,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Skriet,
Youth Brigade,
Donny Hathaway,
Tres Demented,
The Human League,
Oneida,
Rakim,
The Wake,
the Soft Cell,
Loose Ends,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
kango's stein massive,
48th St. Collective,
The Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
Minutemen,
Ohio Players,
The Slackers,
Symarip,
The Mummies,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ronan,
Supertramp,
Robert Wyatt,
The Red Krayola,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Japan,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.