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 Japan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joey Negro to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
The Wake,
The Tremeloes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visage,
the Swans,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
Lyres,
Inner City,
Bad Manners,
The Gun Club,
Jandek,
Prince Buster,
Saccharine Trust,
Quantec,
Alison Limerick,
Jeff Lynne,
John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aloha Tigers,
Cal Tjader,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Dead C,
PIL,
Josef K,
Joe Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Public Enemy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minutemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moby Grape,
Zero Boys,
The Birthday Party,
Connie Case,
X-102,
Fela Kuti,
Shuggie Otis,
The Shadows of Knight,
LL Cool J,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Real Kids,
Aaron Thompson,
Pierre Henry,
Swell Maps,
Blake Baxter,
The Human League,
Duran Duran,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mission of Burma,
Tears for Fears,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Silicon Teens,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.