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 Swaziland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Warsaw 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim 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?
Godley & Creme,
Danielle Patucci,
The Barracudas,
Eric Dolphy,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Sound,
K-Klass,
Talk Talk,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cramps,
The Gories,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boredoms,
Letta Mbulu,
The Martian,
Ossler,
Sun Ra,
Procol Harum,
Grey Daturas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
D'Angelo,
John Foxx,
Massinfluence,
Cybotron,
Simply Red,
Yazoo,
Section 25,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Move,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Residents,
Unrelated Segments,
The Real Kids,
Con Funk Shun,
The United States of America,
The Selecter,
Black Pus,
Marshall Jefferson,
Subhumans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kenny Larkin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moody Blues,
The Searchers,
Todd Terry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Minnie Riperton,
Chris & Cosey,
Model 500,
Clear Light,
The Pretty Things,
This Heat,
Erasure,
David Bowie,
Junior Murvin,
Glambeats Corp.,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.