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 Zambia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Quadrant to the punk 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barry Ungar,
Lalann,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Monolake,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Little Man,
The Cowsills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sam Rivers,
Neil Young,
Janne Schatter,
JFA,
Pantytec,
Gong,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Germs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
Colin Newman,
Jesper Dahlback,
a-ha,
Kerri Chandler,
Gabor Szabo,
Grauzone,
Fela Kuti,
Anakelly,
The Remains,
The Standells,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
Roxette,
The Count Five,
Average White Band,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
David Axelrod,
The Knickerbockers,
Pole,
Roxy Music,
Scion,
Andrew Hill,
Eric Dolphy,
Agent Orange,
Lee Hazlewood,
Matthew Halsall,
The Blackbyrds,
Drexciya,
The Red Krayola,
The Electric Prunes,
Judy Mowatt,
The Vogues,
The Gladiators,
The Fall,
Underground Resistance,
Marvin Gaye,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.