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 China and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Milan.
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 808 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Masters at Work,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cal Tjader,
Carl Craig,
AZ,
Simply Red,
Mark Hollis,
Lee Hazlewood,
DNA,
Laurel Aitken,
Cameo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Zapp,
Donny Hathaway,
Public Enemy,
Panda Bear,
Moebius,
Marvin Gaye,
Hashim,
Gabor Szabo,
Blake Baxter,
Average White Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brand Nubian,
Negative Approach,
Inner City,
Nils Olav,
David McCallum,
Youth Brigade,
Quando Quango,
Agent Orange,
Minutemen,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
This Heat,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Finger,
Fatback Band,
Lindisfarne,
The Trojans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Yazoo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Beau Brummels,
ABBA,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Foxx,
Metal Thangz,
Motorama,
Technova,
Buzzcocks,
Pole,
Tom Boy,
The Gun Club,
Lucky Dragons,
Scion,
Jandek,
The Sonics,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.