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 Zambia and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Gap Band to the grime 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rekid,
Curtis Mayfield,
MDC,
New Order,
The Young Rascals,
The Dead C,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobby Womack,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sight & Sound,
Monolake,
Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
The Techniques,
Terrestrial Tones,
Subhumans,
Donny Hathaway,
The Cramps,
The Fugs,
Leonard Cohen,
FM Einheit,
Eve St. Jones,
The Monochrome Set,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soft Machine,
Unwound,
Ituana,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eden Ahbez,
Steve Hackett,
Infiniti,
The Move,
Banda Bassotti,
Aswad,
The Velvet Underground,
Little Man,
Johnny Clarke,
Jeff Mills,
The Fuzztones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Modern Lovers,
The Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Christie,
Schoolly D,
David McCallum,
Model 500,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dorothy Ashby,
MC5,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Quantec,
Ten City,
Connie Case,
Bobby Sherman,
Davy DMX,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.