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 Italy and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar 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 Harmonia to the rap 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Underground Resistance,
One Last Wish,
Skarface,
Metal Thangz,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Donald Byrd,
Wings,
The Moody Blues,
Pantaleimon,
Simply Red,
Sound Behaviour,
Zapp,
Jeff Lynne,
Mantronix,
Mars,
The Durutti Column,
Inner City,
Arthur Verocai,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Johnny Clarke,
Model 500,
Porter Ricks,
Rekid,
The Star Department,
The Martian,
R.M.O.,
Monolake,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Move,
Scan 7,
Excepter,
Surgeon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Barbara Tucker,
The Trojans,
Eddi Front,
Warsaw,
Davy DMX,
The Monochrome Set,
Echospace,
Eric Copeland,
The Monks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stetsasonic,
Morten Harket,
Tropical Tobacco,
OOIOO,
The New Christs,
The Red Krayola,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Bananas,
David Bowie,
MC5,
Don Cherry,
Parry Music,
Arab on Radar,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Radio Birdman,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.