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 Kyrgyzstan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
OOIOO,
The Residents,
Gang Starr,
Barry Ungar,
Stockholm Monsters,
Duran Duran,
Thompson Twins,
Pet Shop Boys,
Intrusion,
Crooked Eye,
Franke,
Judy Mowatt,
Ponytail,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
The Electric Prunes,
Jacob Miller,
Scratch Acid,
Derrick Morgan,
H. Thieme,
The Velvet Underground,
Charles Mingus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Arab on Radar,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sam Rivers,
X-101,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Remains,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pantytec,
Gichy Dan,
Lalann,
Icehouse,
Buzzcocks,
Magma,
The Grass Roots,
Ten City,
Organ,
Chrome,
Soft Cell,
The Saints,
Jesper Dahlback,
Todd Terry,
The Stooges,
The Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
AZ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Second Layer,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Guru Guru,
Brothers Johnson,
Minutemen,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Heaven 17,
Masters at Work,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.