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 Colombia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Grandmaster Flash to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Quantec,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dead Boys,
Mars,
Albert Ayler,
Faust,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Patti Smith,
Youth Brigade,
Jacob Miller,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ohio Players,
The Count Five,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soulsonic Force,
Y Pants,
Alice Coltrane,
Radio Birdman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Anakelly,
Gang Gang Dance,
Steve Hackett,
Kaleidoscope,
Ossler,
Peter & Gordon,
Royal Trux,
Bauhaus,
The Smiths,
Lungfish,
Kenny Larkin,
Magazine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
The Red Krayola,
Basic Channel,
Amon Düül,
Tubeway Army,
Camberwell Now,
Suburban Knight,
Marine Girls,
Ludus,
Rotary Connection,
The Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Deadbeat,
Q and Not U,
Outsiders,
Rapeman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Quando Quango,
Easy Going,
Marc Almond,
Swans,
Cameo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scion,
Dennis Brown,
Aaron Thompson,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.