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 Serbia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Carl Craig to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Roxy Music,
Oneida,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joe Smooth,
The Doors,
Brass Construction,
Rod Modell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smiths,
Sonic Youth,
Sugar Minott,
One Last Wish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Guru Guru,
Byron Stingily,
Fat Boys,
Bluetip,
Masters at Work,
Eden Ahbez,
Marshall Jefferson,
Delta 5,
The Pretty Things,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bauhaus,
Judy Mowatt,
Pantaleimon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
Rakim,
DJ Style,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Supertramp,
Excepter,
Janne Schatter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Standells,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Average White Band,
Symarip,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Knickerbockers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
LL Cool J,
Crime,
Marc Almond,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Sherman,
Alphaville,
The Cowsills,
Faraquet,
The Invisible,
U.S. Maple,
The Offenders,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bill Wells,
Pole,
Pussy Galore,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.