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 Latvia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Audionom to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
The Buckinghams,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Martian,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Gun Club,
Ornette Coleman,
Sonic Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
The Gladiators,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radio Birdman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Animal Collective,
Angry Samoans,
The Knickerbockers,
Icehouse,
Bauhaus,
Suicide,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Magazine,
The Monochrome Set,
Grauzone,
H. Thieme,
Freddie Wadling,
Avey Tare,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gerry Rafferty,
Altered Images,
The Flesh Eaters,
T. Rex,
Spoonie Gee,
Fad Gadget,
Symarip,
Porter Ricks,
The Dead C,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monks,
James White and The Blacks,
Barrington Levy,
David McCallum,
Grey Daturas,
Urselle,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dawn Penn,
OOIOO,
Pussy Galore,
The Beau Brummels,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Radiohead,
Eden Ahbez,
Faust,
Wasted Youth,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.