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 Korea North and from Halifax.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia 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 Sonny Sharrock to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Sound,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Clarke,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harpers Bizarre,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zero Boys,
The Associates,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
The Slits,
The Dead C,
Fat Boys,
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
Q65,
Surgeon,
Lou Reed,
Qualms,
Popol Vuh,
Camouflage,
The Pop Group,
In Retrospect,
Scan 7,
Oblivians,
Franke,
Guru Guru,
Funky Four + One,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
U.S. Maple,
The Invisible,
Davy DMX,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Max Romeo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Moody Blues,
Roxette,
a-ha,
The Sonics,
the Swans,
Harmonia,
Man Eating Sloth,
Yusef Lateef,
the Normal,
Ornette Coleman,
Derrick May,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eric Dolphy,
Inner City,
Amon Düül II,
The Red Krayola,
Oneida,
The Blackbyrds,
Angry Samoans,
Joensuu 1685,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.