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 Portugal and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Adolescents to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fear,
Loose Ends,
Davy DMX,
Harmonia,
Mandrill,
Soft Cell,
Theoretical Girls,
Fela Kuti,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Delta 5,
Angry Samoans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Normal,
Lakeside,
Circle Jerks,
Faust,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joensuu 1685,
The Busters,
Erasure,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Skarface,
Ice-T,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
The Victims,
Roy Ayers,
Arthur Verocai,
Sandy B,
Kurtis Blow,
Colin Newman,
One Last Wish,
Sex Pistols,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Moon,
The Real Kids,
Mars,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mad Mike,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fuzztones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sam Rivers,
Lucky Dragons,
Stiv Bators,
Massinfluence,
Nik Kershaw,
Crispian St. Peters,
Surgeon,
Minor Threat,
Franke,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.