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 Grenada and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Ronnie Foster,
Skriet,
Shoche,
Loose Ends,
Intrusion,
Pussy Galore,
Lou Reed,
Anakelly,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rotary Connection,
The Beau Brummels,
the Soft Cell,
Black Flag,
Graham Central Station,
The Real Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Unwound,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronan,
Marvin Gaye,
Interpol,
The Black Dice,
Kerri Chandler,
Moss Icon,
Joy Division,
Boogie Down Productions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tubeway Army,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arcadia,
JFA,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
The New Christs,
Roxette,
Flipper,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Al Stewart,
Absolute Body Control,
The J.B.'s,
Lou Christie,
Idris Muhammad,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cybotron,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Minutemen,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Tears for Fears,
The Martian,
Deepchord,
Half Japanese,
Index,
Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gories,
Scott Walker,
Brand Nubian,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.