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 Israel and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
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 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 DJ Style 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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Eric Dolphy,
Godley & Creme,
Byron Stingily,
Bill Near,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Q65,
Reagan Youth,
PIL,
The Vogues,
Shoche,
Nick Fraelich,
The Music Machine,
Panda Bear,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Womack,
Mad Mike,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Real Kids,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Radiohead,
Y Pants,
The Fugs,
Gang Green,
Mo-Dettes,
Subhumans,
Bluetip,
Cameo,
Main Source,
Peter & Gordon,
Soulsonic Force,
Radio Birdman,
Accadde A,
Schoolly D,
Deepchord,
The Searchers,
Sam Rivers,
Con Funk Shun,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Monolake,
Tears for Fears,
Jawbox,
Smog,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rekid,
Khruangbin,
Country Teasers,
Hashim,
Erasure,
Robert Wyatt,
Funky Four + One,
Yazoo,
Amon Düül,
Icehouse,
Boredoms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crime,
The Neon Judgement,
Delta 5,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.