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 Uzbekistan and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Trojans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
CMW,
Soulsonic Force,
Curtis Mayfield,
Josef K,
Swell Maps,
The Gap Band,
Rakim,
Arab on Radar,
David McCallum,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Flag,
Little Man,
Arcadia,
Section 25,
the Association,
Radiohead,
Alice Coltrane,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tim Buckley,
48th St. Collective,
James White and The Blacks,
Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rod Modell,
ABBA,
Vladislav Delay,
The Cowsills,
La Düsseldorf,
10cc,
Desert Stars,
David Bowie,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Public Enemy,
Nas,
X-101,
Black Moon,
Nils Olav,
The Residents,
Metal Thangz,
Piero Umiliani,
Cal Tjader,
Technova,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scion,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Yellowson,
Neu!,
The Golliwogs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Simply Red,
Jacques Brel,
Camouflage,
Television Personalities,
Kayak,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.