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 Italy and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Average White Band,
Pagans,
Quadrant,
The Moleskins,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Sam Rivers,
Leonard Cohen,
Ohio Players,
Warsaw,
Deepchord,
Lee Hazlewood,
Drive Like Jehu,
Q65,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Henry Cow,
Heaven 17,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Quantec,
MC5,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Electric Prunes,
Flash Fearless,
Buzzcocks,
World's Most,
Pantaleimon,
Bill Wells,
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
L. Decosne,
Sandy B,
Minor Threat,
Bauhaus,
Technova,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scion,
Can,
The New Christs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DJ Sneak,
Jeru the Damaja,
ABC,
Drexciya,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Sound,
Dennis Brown,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Peter and Kerry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gong,
The Vogues,
Derrick Morgan,
Bill Near,
Gichy Dan,
Maurizio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Unrelated Segments,
The J.B.'s,
Con Funk Shun,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.