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 Israel and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Pylon to the rap 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Lindisfarne,
Minnie Riperton,
Chris & Cosey,
Amon Düül,
Camberwell Now,
Charles Mingus,
Section 25,
The Monks,
Hashim,
Jandek,
Hasil Adkins,
Model 500,
Qualms,
Eric Copeland,
Bang On A Can,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fuzztones,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Terry Callier,
The Offenders,
The Busters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kenny Larkin,
Roger Hodgson,
The Moody Blues,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Associates,
Siglo XX,
Josef K,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Modern Lovers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
New York Dolls,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Idris Muhammad,
The Leaves,
the Soft Cell,
Silicon Teens,
Khruangbin,
The Pretty Things,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Move,
Moby Grape,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Matthew Halsall,
Cymande,
ABBA,
Skriet,
David McCallum,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Gong,
Jawbox,
Kerri Chandler,
Pagans,
Stereo Dub,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.