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 Georgia and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
The Monochrome Set,
Magma,
Todd Rundgren,
Sonic Youth,
X-102,
Hardrive,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lalann,
Fear,
The Mojo Men,
Isaac Hayes,
Yellowson,
One Last Wish,
Tom Boy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tomorrow,
Roxette,
Robert Hood,
Cheater Slicks,
Bob Dylan,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crispian St. Peters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Little Man,
Chris & Cosey,
Scion,
Interpol,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ice-T,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
Fugazi,
the Slits,
The Motions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Al Stewart,
Cybotron,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Funkadelic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Underground Resistance,
Terry Callier,
Angry Samoans,
The Real Kids,
Jeff Mills,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marine Girls,
Yaz,
The Golliwogs,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.