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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bluetip to the techno 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Al Stewart,
Roy Ayers,
Yaz,
K-Klass,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
Lightning Bolt,
Cecil Taylor,
Grauzone,
Isaac Hayes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Easy Going,
Tomorrow,
The Misunderstood,
Gichy Dan,
Pere Ubu,
The Seeds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Saints,
Tom Boy,
Crooked Eye,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marvin Gaye,
Chris & Cosey,
Altered Images,
The United States of America,
Camouflage,
Q and Not U,
Gang Green,
Rod Modell,
Max Romeo,
Colin Newman,
La Düsseldorf,
Country Teasers,
Joy Division,
Sex Pistols,
Wolf Eyes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Davy DMX,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Moby Grape,
R.M.O.,
Slave,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thompson Twins,
One Last Wish,
Ludus,
Sun Ra,
Bill Wells,
Zero Boys,
The Human League,
B.T. Express,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Average White Band,
Wally Richardson,
Gong,
June Days,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback 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.