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 Thailand and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Accra.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Barrington Levy to the dance 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Alison Limerick,
Agent Orange,
Aswad,
Crime,
Symarip,
Minny Pops,
Moebius,
the Soft Cell,
Rotary Connection,
Scion,
Mo-Dettes,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
The American Breed,
Boredoms,
The Durutti Column,
Fear,
Roy Ayers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Bobby Sherman,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Lyres,
The Standells,
Pagans,
kango's stein massive,
Eric Dolphy,
The Slits,
Yaz,
Patti Smith,
Barclay James Harvest,
Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Zeros,
EPMD,
Archie Shepp,
The Angels of Light,
Adolescents,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eurythmics,
X-101,
Deakin,
Monolake,
Harry Pussy,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Knickerbockers,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Albert Ayler,
Depeche Mode,
Excepter,
Amazonics,
Alice Coltrane,
Anakelly,
Kurtis Blow,
Nik Kershaw,
Throbbing Gristle,
Slick Rick,
Second Layer,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.