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 China and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cymande to the techno 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Derrick Morgan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Japan,
Banda Bassotti,
Stetsasonic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Motions,
Youth Brigade,
Royal Trux,
Bob Dylan,
Main Source,
The Toasters,
The Neon Judgement,
Robert Görl,
Television Personalities,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lebanon Hanover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Susan Cadogan,
Mark Hollis,
Chris Corsano,
David McCallum,
Make Up,
Albert Ayler,
The Wake,
Zero Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Janne Schatter,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chrome,
Davy DMX,
EPMD,
Q and Not U,
Negative Approach,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Technova,
Dennis Brown,
Franke,
Cameo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Yellowson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
One Last Wish,
Vainqueur,
The Black Dice,
The Dead C,
Barbara Tucker,
The Fire Engines,
Dorothy Ashby,
Basic Channel,
The Sonics,
E-Dancer,
Lindisfarne,
Cluster,
Swans,
The Mummies,
Althea and Donna,
ABBA,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.