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 Dominica and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Johnny Osbourne to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Pantaleimon,
The Gap Band,
New Age Steppers,
Flash Fearless,
The Blues Magoos,
Quadrant,
Spoonie Gee,
The Count Five,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Red Krayola,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Move,
Hoover,
The Tremeloes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fugs,
kango's stein massive,
MDC,
Ultravox,
Robert Görl,
Gang Gang Dance,
David Axelrod,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Trojans,
Mr. Review,
Fela Kuti,
Mark Hollis,
The Blackbyrds,
The Five Americans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Young Marble Giants,
Ten City,
Al Stewart,
Lee Hazlewood,
Y Pants,
X-101,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Swell Maps,
Roy Ayers,
Kerri Chandler,
Brass Construction,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Skriet,
Eli Mardock,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tim Buckley,
Sonic Youth,
Faust,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Barry Ungar,
Johnny Osbourne,
Anakelly,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.