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 Kuwait and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Kerri Chandler,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stiv Bators,
X-102,
Pussy Galore,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alison Limerick,
Kurtis Blow,
Aural Exciters,
Pantytec,
The Remains,
The Golliwogs,
Bad Manners,
PIL,
Theoretical Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Dolphy,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
L. Decosne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marc Almond,
Sun Ra,
Bang On A Can,
Harmonia,
Amon Düül II,
Stockholm Monsters,
Spandau Ballet,
Susan Cadogan,
KRS-One,
Sight & Sound,
Pylon,
Minor Threat,
Banda Bassotti,
June of 44,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Byrd,
Panda Bear,
Ice-T,
JFA,
Scientists,
Unrelated Segments,
Half Japanese,
Tropical Tobacco,
New Age Steppers,
The Cramps,
Circle Jerks,
Drexciya,
Agent Orange,
Mission of Burma,
Schoolly D,
The Stooges,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fugs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joey Negro,
Jacques Brel,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.