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 Turkey and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lou Reed to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Mummies,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Second Layer,
Deepchord,
The Zeros,
Japan,
Moby Grape,
The Gladiators,
Model 500,
Brass Construction,
Goldenarms,
Bluetip,
Aaron Thompson,
Surgeon,
Theoretical Girls,
Niagra,
Sarah Menescal,
Motorama,
Kerri Chandler,
Mo-Dettes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Mojo Men,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fat Boys,
Skaos,
Visage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ronan,
The Monks,
Joy Division,
Frankie Knuckles,
Derrick May,
Absolute Body Control,
The Detroit Cobras,
LL Cool J,
Make Up,
Radio Birdman,
Flipper,
8 Eyed Spy,
The New Christs,
Con Funk Shun,
The Grass Roots,
Carl Craig,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Metal Thangz,
X-101,
The Techniques,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fuzztones,
The Doors,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cecil Taylor,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blake Baxter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dawn Penn,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.