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 Cape Verde and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sarah Menescal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Joe Finger,
Dave Gahan,
Lower 48,
The Standells,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Scan 7,
Alphaville,
Jacques Brel,
Patti Smith,
Sun City Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Normal,
Swans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kayak,
Camouflage,
The Gap Band,
Interpol,
Faust,
Pierre Henry,
This Heat,
Hardrive,
Stockholm Monsters,
Boredoms,
The Searchers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Yusef Lateef,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Altered Images,
Dennis Brown,
Skriet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Moebius,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Loose Ends,
The Dave Clark Five,
Little Man,
Rotary Connection,
The Golliwogs,
Desert Stars,
the Soft Cell,
Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Los Fastidios,
Zero Boys,
Thompson Twins,
Joe Smooth,
Thee Headcoats,
Gabor Szabo,
The Blackbyrds,
Ice-T,
Youth Brigade,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quadrant,
EPMD,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang Gang Dance,
Au Pairs,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.