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 Uganda and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Rakim to the punk 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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Ronnie Foster,
Traffic Nightmare,
Schoolly D,
Joey Negro,
Neu!,
These Immortal Souls,
Neil Young,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minny Pops,
the Normal,
Joy Division,
Main Source,
Mark Hollis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Laurel Aitken,
ABC,
Idris Muhammad,
Brick,
Sixth Finger,
Thompson Twins,
Intrusion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Soft Cell,
New Order,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Spoonie Gee,
Deadbeat,
Warren Ellis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sex Pistols,
Bobbi Humphrey,
E-Dancer,
Soulsonic Force,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Skatalites,
Skaos,
Scion,
Agitation Free,
The Names,
R.M.O.,
Babytalk,
Talk Talk,
Joensuu 1685,
Deepchord,
Anakelly,
Little Man,
Glenn Branca,
Depeche Mode,
The Slackers,
The Invisible,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Mojo Men,
kango's stein massive,
Massinfluence,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonny Sharrock,
Faraquet,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bad Manners,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.