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 Maldives and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Ituana to the funk 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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Tommy Roe,
Jacob Miller,
Skaos,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kevin Saunderson,
Chris & Cosey,
Fad Gadget,
Curtis Mayfield,
B.T. Express,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
T.S.O.L.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Morten Harket,
Radio Birdman,
Los Fastidios,
Laurel Aitken,
Aural Exciters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rod Modell,
Amon Düül II,
Quantec,
A Certain Ratio,
The Flesh Eaters,
One Last Wish,
Minor Threat,
Soulsonic Force,
Masters at Work,
Q65,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
The Skatalites,
Flipper,
Nils Olav,
Delta 5,
Roxy Music,
Junior Murvin,
The Dirtbombs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Howard Jones,
the Normal,
Al Stewart,
Bluetip,
Alphaville,
Robert Wyatt,
Schoolly D,
Lower 48,
Depeche Mode,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pop Group,
The Human League,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ultravox,
Hashim,
Interpol,
The Fall,
The Mummies,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.