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 Uzbekistan and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Quantec to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Amazonics,
Visage,
Technova,
Silicon Teens,
Symarip,
The Modern Lovers,
Suicide,
Althea and Donna,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Drexciya,
The Residents,
David Axelrod,
Shuggie Otis,
Matthew Halsall,
The Move,
Monolake,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Johnny Clarke,
kango's stein massive,
ABC,
Jeru the Damaja,
Babytalk,
The Toasters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Matthew Bourne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Davy DMX,
Wolf Eyes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Seeds,
Q and Not U,
Cheater Slicks,
Chris Corsano,
Ituana,
The United States of America,
Man Eating Sloth,
CMW,
Howard Jones,
John Cale,
Albert Ayler,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Associates,
Pharoah Sanders,
ABBA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bauhaus,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
Reagan Youth,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Hood,
Sight & Sound,
Metal Thangz,
The Monochrome Set,
Toni Rubio,
Bizarre Inc.,
Funkadelic,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.