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 Norway and from Mexico City.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lungfish to the dance 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Derrick May,
The Happenings,
Groovy Waters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moebius,
Silicon Teens,
Wasted Youth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stockholm Monsters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Erykah Badu,
The American Breed,
Audionom,
Dorothy Ashby,
MDC,
Bootsy Collins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Section 25,
Model 500,
Thee Headcoats,
Japan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pole,
John Foxx,
Easy Going,
The Music Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cluster,
Connie Case,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ronan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Maleditus Sound,
Carl Craig,
Dark Day,
David Bowie,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The New Christs,
DJ Sneak,
Flash Fearless,
The Remains,
Scott Walker,
The Invisible,
Hasil Adkins,
Agitation Free,
Funky Four + One,
Terry Callier,
The Gun Club,
Stetsasonic,
Ludus,
Judy Mowatt,
Ornette Coleman,
Mo-Dettes,
Echospace,
Excepter,
Marc Almond,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.