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 Ireland and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Youth Brigade to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
The Cure,
Basic Channel,
Archie Shepp,
Half Japanese,
Wire,
Soul II Soul,
the Fania All-Stars,
New York Dolls,
Vainqueur,
MC5,
Make Up,
Aswad,
Television,
Television Personalities,
Second Layer,
Fluxion,
The Move,
Amazonics,
Procol Harum,
Johnny Osbourne,
Al Stewart,
Susan Cadogan,
Max Romeo,
Gabor Szabo,
Gichy Dan,
The Moody Blues,
World's Most,
The Count Five,
Frankie Knuckles,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ralphi Rosario,
Agitation Free,
Darondo,
Rekid,
Alton Ellis,
Crime,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Essential Logic,
The Young Rascals,
Delon & Dalcan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wings,
kango's stein massive,
Kenny Larkin,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bizarre Inc.,
OOIOO,
The Techniques,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Little Man,
Hardrive,
Unwound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rotary Connection,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric Dolphy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Faust,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.