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 Tunisia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Q65 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Davy DMX,
Suicide,
Young Marble Giants,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Technova,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Iggy Pop,
Second Layer,
The Motions,
La Düsseldorf,
Curtis Mayfield,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang On A Can,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantytec,
Fluxion,
Stereo Dub,
Pussy Galore,
Charles Mingus,
Mission of Burma,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
Faust,
Agitation Free,
Bad Manners,
Minor Threat,
Minny Pops,
Todd Terry,
Yusef Lateef,
Alice Coltrane,
Can,
L. Decosne,
Rhythm & Sound,
Harmonia,
Essential Logic,
cv313,
Nation of Ulysses,
Parry Music,
Black Pus,
Scion,
Yazoo,
Lightning Bolt,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Dirtbombs,
Main Source,
Sister Nancy,
The Litter,
Ohio Players,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Juan Atkins,
The Tremeloes,
Rufus Thomas,
Donny Hathaway,
R.M.O.,
The Count Five,
Smog,
a-ha,
Joey Negro,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.