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 Barbados and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Shoche to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
The Techniques,
Cluster,
Robert Görl,
The Associates,
Black Sheep,
Derrick May,
New York Dolls,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
Crime,
Thompson Twins,
Minny Pops,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Young Marble Giants,
Pylon,
Swell Maps,
Heaven 17,
Monks,
Icehouse,
Simply Red,
The Fugs,
Sun City Girls,
Hot Snakes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker,
Main Source,
The Cramps,
Althea and Donna,
R.M.O.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dave Gahan,
X-101,
Black Pus,
The Durutti Column,
Jeff Mills,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash,
Al Stewart,
The Zeros,
Throbbing Gristle,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Searchers,
Iggy Pop,
Howard Jones,
the Bar-Kays,
Reagan Youth,
Nirvana,
Dawn Penn,
Boredoms,
Carl Craig,
Bill Near,
The Seeds,
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.