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 Belarus and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron 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 Simply Red to the funk 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Blake Baxter,
Make Up,
Fat Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mandrill,
Derrick Morgan,
Lindisfarne,
Alice Coltrane,
The Real Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
Animal Collective,
Joensuu 1685,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harry Pussy,
This Heat,
Magazine,
Eddi Front,
ABC,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Max Romeo,
In Retrospect,
The Evens,
Man Eating Sloth,
Idris Muhammad,
Wire,
Erasure,
Aloha Tigers,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Motions,
Rakim,
Ossler,
Neil Young,
Delta 5,
Isaac Hayes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
June Days,
Vainqueur,
Don Cherry,
Ludus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Parry Music,
Girls At Our Best!,
Matthew Halsall,
Model 500,
Shuggie Otis,
Yazoo,
Symarip,
These Immortal Souls,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Parrish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
James White and The Blacks,
cv313,
DJ Style,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.