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 Guyana and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Swell Maps to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar 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 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Freddie Wadling,
Rod Modell,
Godley & Creme,
X-101,
The Raincoats,
X-Ray Spex,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Lalann,
Depeche Mode,
Kas Product,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang of Four,
The Standells,
The Fortunes,
The Dirtbombs,
Technova,
Bad Manners,
Rhythm & Sound,
Index,
Joensuu 1685,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Audionom,
The Star Department,
The Cramps,
Jandek,
Basic Channel,
Malaria!,
Metal Thangz,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tommy Roe,
Alphaville,
Fugazi,
The Zeros,
Scientists,
Soul II Soul,
Sister Nancy,
Piero Umiliani,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scrapy,
The Trojans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Minny Pops,
Juan Atkins,
Ultra Naté,
The Beau Brummels,
Agent Orange,
AZ,
DNA,
The Blackbyrds,
Derrick May,
John Coltrane,
Sparks,
Cymande,
Icehouse,
Skriet,
Janne Schatter,
Roger Hodgson,
Jeff Mills,
Porter Ricks,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.