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 Thailand and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Brand Nubian to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Soft Machine,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Zeros,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Danielle Patucci,
Eddi Front,
MDC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
David Axelrod,
Byron Stingily,
JFA,
Average White Band,
Bronski Beat,
June Days,
The Kinks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dead Boys,
Harmonia,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Womack,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jesper Dahlback,
Surgeon,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
The Barracudas,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rod Modell,
Fad Gadget,
The Saints,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scratch Acid,
Goldenarms,
Pylon,
Don Cherry,
Amon Düül,
Bauhaus,
Roy Ayers,
Swans,
Bobby Byrd,
Tears for Fears,
Minor Threat,
MC5,
Icehouse,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Harry Pussy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marvin Gaye,
Grauzone,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Music Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
Deepchord,
Minnie Riperton,
Throbbing Gristle,
Neu!,
Davy DMX,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.