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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Yusef Lateef to the grime 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Durutti Column record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Aural Exciters,
Depeche Mode,
Lalann,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
The Human League,
The Associates,
Faust,
Scrapy,
Minor Threat,
Pierre Henry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Excepter,
John Holt,
the Sonics,
Faraquet,
H. Thieme,
Little Man,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jeff Lynne,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Mo-Dettes,
Das Ding,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Shoche,
Erasure,
Grandmaster Flash,
Quadrant,
The Walker Brothers,
Agitation Free,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mars,
Lakeside,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Axelrod,
Rites of Spring,
Organ,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scott Walker,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Leonard Cohen,
Rekid,
The Blues Magoos,
The Star Department,
Vainqueur,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lungfish,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Blackbyrds,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alison Limerick,
Kool Moe Dee,
June Days,
the Normal,
Brick,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.