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 Japan and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Donny Hathaway to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Dual Sessions,
10cc,
Drexciya,
Unwound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jeff Mills,
the Association,
Trumans Water,
Nik Kershaw,
Kayak,
Reagan Youth,
The Invisible,
New Order,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Davy DMX,
Lightning Bolt,
E-Dancer,
Cheater Slicks,
John Lydon,
Sonic Youth,
The Associates,
The Moody Blues,
Fugazi,
Bob Dylan,
Toni Rubio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
New Age Steppers,
Robert Wyatt,
Second Layer,
Junior Murvin,
Terry Callier,
Loose Ends,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
La Düsseldorf,
Marshall Jefferson,
Agitation Free,
The Motions,
Yaz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mission of Burma,
Japan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The New Christs,
Alton Ellis,
Sällskapet,
F. McDonald,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joyce Sims,
Aswad,
Sight & Sound,
Delta 5,
The Mummies,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Agent Orange,
Joe Smooth,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.