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 Pakistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Joyce Sims to the electroclash 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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
The Sonics,
The Vogues,
Skarface,
Crispy Ambulance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
A Certain Ratio,
Groovy Waters,
The Smoke,
X-102,
Porter Ricks,
Joyce Sims,
Derrick Morgan,
The Buckinghams,
Harmonia,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gladiators,
Soulsonic Force,
Fluxion,
Colin Newman,
Leonard Cohen,
Vladislav Delay,
Clear Light,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
D'Angelo,
Reuben Wilson,
L. Decosne,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
Sun Ra,
One Last Wish,
Public Enemy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Althea and Donna,
Spandau Ballet,
Parry Music,
Adolescents,
Roger Hodgson,
Fear,
Easy Going,
Shuggie Otis,
Rakim,
Television Personalities,
New Order,
Goldenarms,
John Lydon,
Yusef Lateef,
Sexual Harrassment,
Infiniti,
Ultra Naté,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Arthur Verocai,
Sparks,
Camberwell Now,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.