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 Guinea and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rosa Yemen to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Leonard Cohen,
John Foxx,
The Stooges,
Japan,
Morten Harket,
Eric Dolphy,
Sugar Minott,
The Real Kids,
CMW,
Alton Ellis,
Dennis Brown,
Fear,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Young Rascals,
Royal Trux,
Alphaville,
Bobby Byrd,
Judy Mowatt,
The Modern Lovers,
Wire,
Max Romeo,
June Days,
Joey Negro,
Marine Girls,
Popol Vuh,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Derrick Morgan,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bauhaus,
The Seeds,
Eurythmics,
Magma,
Excepter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Glenn Branca,
Easy Going,
Negative Approach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Youth Brigade,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Shuggie Otis,
Black Pus,
Severed Heads,
Andrew Hill,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gichy Dan,
Boz Scaggs,
Roger Hodgson,
Ossler,
Don Cherry,
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.