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 Monaco and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 H. Thieme to the techno 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Reuben Wilson,
The Busters,
Archie Shepp,
Joensuu 1685,
Andrew Hill,
Bad Manners,
Tomorrow,
Panda Bear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eli Mardock,
Rakim,
Gabor Szabo,
X-101,
Duran Duran,
Sister Nancy,
The Gladiators,
The Last Poets,
David McCallum,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Zeros,
The Real Kids,
Man Eating Sloth,
Alton Ellis,
The Slits,
Slick Rick,
Accadde A,
The Fugs,
Rosa Yemen,
Sight & Sound,
Gang Green,
Pet Shop Boys,
Godley & Creme,
Q and Not U,
The United States of America,
Sound Behaviour,
Sex Pistols,
Amon Düül II,
Agitation Free,
Eric Copeland,
Terrestrial Tones,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Von Mondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Altered Images,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cameo,
The Count Five,
The Trojans,
Ludus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Piero Umiliani,
Easy Going,
The Buckinghams,
La Düsseldorf,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Zero Boys,
Sällskapet,
Magma,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grandmaster Flash,
Supertramp,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.