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 Lithuania and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cybotron to the disco 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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pere Ubu,
Donald Byrd,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
Pantytec,
Masters at Work,
Godley & Creme,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultravox,
Silicon Teens,
Sam Rivers,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Holt,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Red Krayola,
Avey Tare,
Eve St. Jones,
Ohio Players,
Lou Christie,
Laurel Aitken,
Agitation Free,
Marvin Gaye,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
Los Fastidios,
The Smoke,
Index,
Bobby Sherman,
Man Eating Sloth,
Accadde A,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eric Copeland,
Crispy Ambulance,
Terrestrial Tones,
James White and The Blacks,
The Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nils Olav,
DJ Sneak,
Monks,
B.T. Express,
Circle Jerks,
Von Mondo,
H. Thieme,
Dorothy Ashby,
Arab on Radar,
The Young Rascals,
Dawn Penn,
Moebius,
Anakelly,
Buzzcocks,
the Swans,
Inner City,
Harpers Bizarre,
Thee Headcoats,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fortunes,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.