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 Austria and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 KRS-One to the punk 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Deepchord,
The Busters,
Funkadelic,
Pantaleimon,
Mad Mike,
Mantronix,
The Searchers,
R.M.O.,
The Invisible,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Associates,
Suicide,
The Tremeloes,
Bluetip,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rufus Thomas,
Archie Shepp,
The Walker Brothers,
Camberwell Now,
The Neon Judgement,
The Fuzztones,
The Pop Group,
Joyce Sims,
Arthur Verocai,
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
The Velvet Underground,
Cal Tjader,
Flipper,
Surgeon,
Jeff Mills,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Index,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Seeds,
The Golliwogs,
Vainqueur,
Delta 5,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Sherman,
Lakeside,
Cymande,
Whodini,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jandek,
K-Klass,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Young Rascals,
Soulsonic Force,
Ituana,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
H. Thieme,
Scratch Acid,
Wally Richardson,
Country Teasers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.