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 Belize and from Halifax.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Davy DMX to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Rod Modell,
Moebius,
Surgeon,
Crooked Eye,
DJ Style,
Von Mondo,
Albert Ayler,
Mark Hollis,
Metal Thangz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Pop Group,
Blancmange,
These Immortal Souls,
Black Flag,
Harry Pussy,
Soul II Soul,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scrapy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gong,
Grandmaster Flash,
Anthony Braxton,
Quando Quango,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Angry Samoans,
Pantytec,
Gerry Rafferty,
Symarip,
Main Source,
Cameo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Archie Shepp,
Roxette,
8 Eyed Spy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bob Dylan,
Eric Dolphy,
China Crisis,
Aaron Thompson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stiv Bators,
Sound Behaviour,
David McCallum,
New Order,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Star Department,
Masters at Work,
Wire,
Bobby Womack,
Crime,
Sonic Youth,
Shoche,
Banda Bassotti,
Minny Pops,
The Move,
Steve Hackett,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Neon Judgement,
Rapeman,
Blake Baxter,
Black Moon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.