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 Saudi Arabia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb 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 Guru Guru to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Hashim,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fluxion,
Inner City,
Swans,
Faust,
Roxette,
Fifty Foot Hose,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Howard Jones,
Ludus,
KRS-One,
Unrelated Segments,
Cymande,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gastr Del Sol,
Aural Exciters,
Danielle Patucci,
Royal Trux,
Pylon,
Ronnie Foster,
Pagans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric B and Rakim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Desert Stars,
Franke,
Iggy Pop,
The Gun Club,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alphaville,
E-Dancer,
Nils Olav,
T.S.O.L.,
Don Cherry,
Derrick Morgan,
Fear,
Quando Quango,
Ossler,
Prince Buster,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
UT,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Carl Craig,
Peter & Gordon,
Animal Collective,
Magazine,
The Zeros,
CMW,
Adolescents,
Rotary Connection,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Todd Rundgren,
Yaz,
The Walker Brothers,
The Count Five,
Excepter,
The Five Americans,
Electric Prunes,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.