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 Latvia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Echospace to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
The Saints,
X-102,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Normal,
Ultravox,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cymande,
Dark Day,
The Kinks,
Pagans,
cv313,
Barbara Tucker,
Warsaw,
Rekid,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
Bluetip,
The Motions,
Pharoah Sanders,
Amazonics,
Junior Murvin,
Ossler,
Lindisfarne,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Audionom,
Michelle Simonal,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cure,
Theoretical Girls,
Visage,
U.S. Maple,
Rites of Spring,
Maleditus Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
Anthony Braxton,
Delon & Dalcan,
Anakelly,
Loose Ends,
Magazine,
Arab on Radar,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David Axelrod,
Stereo Dub,
Angry Samoans,
The Vogues,
Andrew Hill,
KRS-One,
Sun Ra,
Joy Division,
The Selecter,
the Bar-Kays,
Bang On A Can,
Von Mondo,
The Red Krayola,
The Doobie Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ronnie Foster,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.