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 Tunisia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Q and Not U to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Jeff Lynne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Swell Maps,
R.M.O.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sight & Sound,
Reuben Wilson,
Organ,
LL Cool J,
Sound Behaviour,
Barry Ungar,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sex Pistols,
Kayak,
Arcadia,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
Procol Harum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Matthew Bourne,
Newcleus,
Banda Bassotti,
Gang Green,
Reagan Youth,
L. Decosne,
Quadrant,
Colin Newman,
Graham Central Station,
Niagra,
The Happenings,
KRS-One,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bang On A Can,
Anthony Braxton,
The Real Kids,
The Neon Judgement,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Five Americans,
Surgeon,
Vladislav Delay,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fluxion,
Television,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rod Modell,
Derrick May,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Human League,
New Order,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Qualms,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Tremeloes,
Goldenarms,
Sällskapet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alton Ellis,
Ralphi Rosario,
Brick,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.