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 Grenada and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 Soft Machine 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Happenings,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Michelle Simonal,
Lakeside,
Malaria!,
Rekid,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric Copeland,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Last Poets,
Whodini,
Gang Starr,
Letta Mbulu,
Heaven 17,
Max Romeo,
The Motions,
Spandau Ballet,
John Lydon,
Altered Images,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rapeman,
the Slits,
MDC,
Visage,
Youth Brigade,
Deadbeat,
Quantec,
Leonard Cohen,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Wyatt,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
MC5,
Kool Moe Dee,
Procol Harum,
Jerry's Kids,
Jacques Brel,
Television,
Electric Prunes,
DJ Style,
The Buckinghams,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wolf Eyes,
Soul II Soul,
The Doors,
Faraquet,
Average White Band,
Aswad,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Khruangbin,
Skarface,
Pagans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blossom Toes,
Tres Demented,
The Doobie Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Echospace,
Angry Samoans,
Mark Hollis,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.