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 Lithuania and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 8 Eyed Spy to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Neu!,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Shoche,
Brass Construction,
Derrick May,
D'Angelo,
Delta 5,
Grey Daturas,
Pole,
Can,
The Offenders,
kango's stein massive,
Underground Resistance,
48th St. Collective,
Television,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
Depeche Mode,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ralphi Rosario,
Funky Four + One,
Stockholm Monsters,
Roy Ayers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gichy Dan,
Agent Orange,
Minor Threat,
Buzzcocks,
K-Klass,
Yusef Lateef,
Stereo Dub,
Lyres,
Schoolly D,
Quantec,
Cymande,
Reuben Wilson,
Quadrant,
The Wake,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Agitation Free,
David McCallum,
Scratch Acid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pylon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aloha Tigers,
Amon Düül,
Aural Exciters,
Sugar Minott,
Danielle Patucci,
Franke,
Black Flag,
Hardrive,
Chris & Cosey,
Inner City,
Nation of Ulysses,
China Crisis,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.