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 Congo and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Shanghai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harmonia to the jazz 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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
DJ Sneak,
Mad Mike,
Gang Green,
The Leaves,
Junior Murvin,
The Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
The Toasters,
Dorothy Ashby,
New York Dolls,
Ituana,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eden Ahbez,
Suburban Knight,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Happenings,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yusef Lateef,
The Busters,
The Skatalites,
The Selecter,
Unwound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
U.S. Maple,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Aswad,
Silicon Teens,
Marshall Jefferson,
Schoolly D,
Stereo Dub,
The Zeros,
The Monochrome Set,
Circle Jerks,
Public Image Ltd.,
The American Breed,
Boogie Down Productions,
ABC,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Human League,
Grey Daturas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Evens,
The Sonics,
Pulsallama,
The Blues Magoos,
Wire,
The Smoke,
Mark Hollis,
Cameo,
Derrick May,
Skriet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.