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 Norway and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 theremin 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 Chrome to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gladiators,
The Alarm Clocks,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fuzztones,
Vainqueur,
Skriet,
The Stooges,
Funky Four + One,
Deepchord,
The Doors,
Blossom Toes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Real Kids,
Chris & Cosey,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ornette Coleman,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Con Funk Shun,
Sam Rivers,
David Axelrod,
Kurtis Blow,
Swell Maps,
The Blues Magoos,
Brass Construction,
Ken Boothe,
cv313,
Ultra Naté,
Terry Callier,
The Smoke,
Robert Wyatt,
Colin Newman,
Eden Ahbez,
Blake Baxter,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Sound,
The Mummies,
DNA,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Association,
Johnny Osbourne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Man Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick May,
Crash Course in Science,
Beasts of Bourbon,
48th St. Collective,
The Selecter,
Chrome,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Japan,
K-Klass,
Quando Quango,
The Leaves,
The Birthday Party,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.