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 Cape Verde and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Procol Harum to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Metal Thangz,
L. Decosne,
Jeff Mills,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
Rosa Yemen,
Zapp,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Al Stewart,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Janne Schatter,
Con Funk Shun,
Sugar Minott,
The Fugs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Henry Cow,
Swans,
Brass Construction,
Electric Prunes,
Black Sheep,
Motorama,
Ituana,
Little Man,
The Star Department,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Sherman,
June Days,
Don Cherry,
Pagans,
Accadde A,
Audionom,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Techniques,
Grey Daturas,
Derrick May,
Country Teasers,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Count Five,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Standells,
Girls At Our Best!,
David Bowie,
Scrapy,
Godley & Creme,
Make Up,
Wally Richardson,
Fatback Band,
Howard Jones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Chris & Cosey,
Theoretical Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Slave,
Ponytail,
H. Thieme,
EPMD,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.