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 Brazil and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gastr Del Sol to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stiv Bators,
Eddi Front,
Ponytail,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ken Boothe,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Christie,
The Gories,
Judy Mowatt,
Dennis Brown,
Outsiders,
Skarface,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alison Limerick,
Slave,
The Fall,
Suburban Knight,
Donny Hathaway,
Amazonics,
The Gap Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Mission of Burma,
The Star Department,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Matthew Halsall,
Pere Ubu,
The Evens,
Spoonie Gee,
The Buckinghams,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Soft Cell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Clear Light,
Warsaw,
Radiohead,
Gang Green,
Ultravox,
Nas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Smoke,
B.T. Express,
Chris Corsano,
Public Enemy,
Essential Logic,
Liliput,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Flash Fearless,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
H. Thieme,
Amon Düül,
Drexciya,
Althea and Donna,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arcadia,
The Moody Blues,
Metal Thangz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric Dolphy,
Von Mondo,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.