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 Gambia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ 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 Zapp to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Shoche,
Masters at Work,
Barclay James Harvest,
CMW,
Con Funk Shun,
Andrew Hill,
Country Teasers,
Audionom,
Bobby Sherman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wolf Eyes,
Can,
Cluster,
June of 44,
Suburban Knight,
Section 25,
The Doors,
The Motions,
Harmonia,
Echospace,
The Slits,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Unrelated Segments,
Camberwell Now,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Mummies,
Siglo XX,
Make Up,
X-101,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalann,
China Crisis,
the Swans,
Second Layer,
H. Thieme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
UT,
Sun Ra,
Silicon Teens,
Symarip,
cv313,
Aural Exciters,
The Tremeloes,
Main Source,
Delta 5,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marmalade,
Sonic Youth,
Hashim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Görl,
Kurtis Blow,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.