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 Georgia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Happenings to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Isaac Hayes,
Andrew Hill,
Guru Guru,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
Duran Duran,
Alton Ellis,
Hot Snakes,
Ludus,
Nas,
The Five Americans,
In Retrospect,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wally Richardson,
Audionom,
Rapeman,
Arab on Radar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Essential Logic,
The United States of America,
The Sonics,
Desert Stars,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Almond,
Nirvana,
Minny Pops,
T. Rex,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Sound,
10cc,
The Golliwogs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Hoover,
Jandek,
The Cure,
Tim Buckley,
The Zeros,
New Order,
Godley & Creme,
The Alarm Clocks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Remains,
Skriet,
Procol Harum,
Iggy Pop,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Excepter,
Boz Scaggs,
Albert Ayler,
Dual Sessions,
The Pretty Things,
Japan,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Finger,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Oneida,
Mantronix,
Pantaleimon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.