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 Ecuador and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Depeche Mode to the grime 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Main Source,
Neu!,
Freddie Wadling,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fall,
Los Fastidios,
Amazonics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Schoolly D,
The Gories,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q65,
Amon Düül II,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pet Shop Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
Pierre Henry,
Television,
Erykah Badu,
The Gladiators,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sonny Sharrock,
Donald Byrd,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Slits,
Guru Guru,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
James White and The Blacks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Martian,
Outsiders,
Roger Hodgson,
Arcadia,
A Certain Ratio,
Lakeside,
Ohio Players,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lou Christie,
Camouflage,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Albert Ayler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
World's Most,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Lydon,
Erasure,
The Electric Prunes,
Young Marble Giants,
Vainqueur,
Radiohead,
John Holt,
Nik Kershaw,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.