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 Botswana and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pierre Henry to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Audionom,
The Sound,
U.S. Maple,
Scrapy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
Moebius,
Godley & Creme,
the Slits,
The Litter,
The Walker Brothers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lebanon Hanover,
The J.B.'s,
Boz Scaggs,
Swell Maps,
The Stooges,
Reuben Wilson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The American Breed,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker,
Bill Wells,
Rufus Thomas,
Juan Atkins,
Morten Harket,
Kayak,
Don Cherry,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Moleskins,
Tres Demented,
Pylon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brand Nubian,
Slave,
The Modern Lovers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Au Pairs,
Suicide,
Grauzone,
D'Angelo,
Interpol,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bill Near,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobby Sherman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gap Band,
Agent Orange,
Lalann,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
Byron Stingily,
The Flesh Eaters,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.