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 Romania and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rhythm & Sound to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Johnny Clarke,
Charles Mingus,
Pierre Henry,
The Star Department,
Aswad,
Depeche Mode,
Half Japanese,
Jeff Mills,
Duran Duran,
Ornette Coleman,
Section 25,
Stiv Bators,
John Coltrane,
Smog,
Khruangbin,
Tommy Roe,
Max Romeo,
Maurizio,
Faust,
Q and Not U,
Lou Reed,
The Wake,
Godley & Creme,
the Slits,
OOIOO,
L. Decosne,
Hoover,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jawbox,
Gang of Four,
Zero Boys,
Alison Limerick,
Stereo Dub,
Yellowson,
The Smoke,
Joyce Sims,
The United States of America,
Susan Cadogan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun City Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Gang Gang Dance,
10cc,
Piero Umiliani,
Lalo Schifrin,
Robert Wyatt,
The Kinks,
DNA,
Black Bananas,
K-Klass,
Black Moon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Prince Buster,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gap Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
H. Thieme,
The Monks,
The Busters,
The Motions,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.