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 South Africa and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sun City Girls to the funk 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 Throbbing Gristle. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Barrington Levy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Severed Heads,
D'Angelo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Quantec,
The Neon Judgement,
Juan Atkins,
Reagan Youth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fluxion,
Warsaw,
The Remains,
Warren Ellis,
Archie Shepp,
Todd Rundgren,
Yaz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eric Copeland,
The Trojans,
Agitation Free,
Basic Channel,
Das Ding,
Fatback Band,
Connie Case,
The Detroit Cobras,
Little Man,
Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Make Up,
The Count Five,
The Durutti Column,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Procol Harum,
Parry Music,
Can,
Minutemen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Khruangbin,
KRS-One,
The American Breed,
The Raincoats,
Gang of Four,
Sparks,
Blancmange,
Man Parrish,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
Half Japanese,
The Grass Roots,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lucky Dragons,
Junior Murvin,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.