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 Jordan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Dual Sessions to the grime 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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba 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 mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Joensuu 1685,
Yellowson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bad Manners,
The Vogues,
Suicide,
Lyres,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eli Mardock,
The Moleskins,
Kerri Chandler,
Talk Talk,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Associates,
X-102,
The Techniques,
Mantronix,
Mandrill,
Lightning Bolt,
Nas,
Half Japanese,
Make Up,
Oneida,
Drexciya,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultimate Spinach,
D'Angelo,
The Pop Group,
Maleditus Sound,
Brass Construction,
The Busters,
Archie Shepp,
The Beau Brummels,
X-Ray Spex,
Bobby Sherman,
Cymande,
Black Sheep,
Inner City,
Rod Modell,
Anthony Braxton,
Crooked Eye,
Circle Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
Dawn Penn,
Zero Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roy Ayers,
The Fire Engines,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Freddie Wadling,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fatback Band,
The Searchers,
Main Source,
The Happenings,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Don Cherry,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.