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 Kosovo and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Babytalk,
The Stooges,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!,
June Days,
Ten City,
Das Ding,
The United States of America,
Bobby Womack,
Half Japanese,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Second Layer,
Sugar Minott,
The Pop Group,
Davy DMX,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Adolescents,
Soft Machine,
Television,
Pierre Henry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boz Scaggs,
Henry Cow,
Rosa Yemen,
Unwound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Duran Duran,
The Skatalites,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Oneida,
Anakelly,
Yusef Lateef,
The Golliwogs,
Peter and Kerry,
Lalann,
Althea and Donna,
Donny Hathaway,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
MDC,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alison Limerick,
Pantaleimon,
The Cowsills,
The Dead C,
Todd Rundgren,
John Coltrane,
Minny Pops,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
OOIOO,
Marine Girls,
Royal Trux,
Young Marble Giants,
Juan Atkins,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Simply Red,
Erykah Badu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.