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 Kiribati and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 The Remains to the jazz 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Robert Wyatt,
Hasil Adkins,
Delta 5,
Model 500,
Rapeman,
The Happenings,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Supertramp,
The Mojo Men,
Zero Boys,
The Zeros,
Sex Pistols,
Dennis Brown,
Scan 7,
Isaac Hayes,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Evens,
One Last Wish,
Interpol,
Lalann,
Flash Fearless,
Chrome,
B.T. Express,
Bob Dylan,
Robert Görl,
Josef K,
Tubeway Army,
Rotary Connection,
Oblivians,
Scratch Acid,
Ornette Coleman,
Brass Construction,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jacques Brel,
John Coltrane,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Moody Blues,
Derrick Morgan,
Lower 48,
Make Up,
Gregory Isaacs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
OOIOO,
Ponytail,
cv313,
T.S.O.L.,
Thee Headcoats,
The Neon Judgement,
Eric Dolphy,
Ituana,
Yaz,
James White and The Blacks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Todd Rundgren,
Deepchord,
Bill Near,
The Black Dice,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.