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 Costa Rica and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Robert Görl to the rock 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Electric Prunes,
Zapp,
Yusef Lateef,
Television Personalities,
Cheater Slicks,
ABC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hasil Adkins,
The Grass Roots,
the Fania All-Stars,
Young Marble Giants,
John Cale,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joensuu 1685,
Chris Corsano,
Zero Boys,
PIL,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
MDC,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ronan,
Lyres,
Man Parrish,
the Swans,
Brothers Johnson,
Sun City Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Cybotron,
Robert Wyatt,
Eric Copeland,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Chrome,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marcia Griffiths,
Skaos,
Barbara Tucker,
Spoonie Gee,
Joe Smooth,
Godley & Creme,
Gang of Four,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Soft Cell,
Eddi Front,
Moebius,
Audionom,
Chris & Cosey,
The Vogues,
Robert Hood,
Ice-T,
DJ Style,
DNA,
Fat Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Blancmange,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boredoms,
Fad Gadget,
Animal Collective,
The Electric Prunes,
The Mojo Men,
LL Cool J,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.