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 Serbia and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin 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 the Germs to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
The Fall,
Can,
Tears for Fears,
X-101,
Siglo XX,
Toni Rubio,
Rotary Connection,
Shuggie Otis,
Nick Fraelich,
Scion,
Pantaleimon,
The Golliwogs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Happenings,
Derrick Morgan,
Anthony Braxton,
The Wake,
U.S. Maple,
Metal Thangz,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bad Manners,
Junior Murvin,
Amon Düül II,
Hardrive,
Sixth Finger,
Moebius,
Scratch Acid,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Isaac Hayes,
The Barracudas,
Mark Hollis,
Funkadelic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Red Krayola,
Deadbeat,
Soul II Soul,
cv313,
New Order,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare,
Gregory Isaacs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Masters at Work,
The Gap Band,
The Leaves,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Theoretical Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter & Gordon,
Maleditus Sound,
Section 25,
Fatback Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
David Axelrod,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.