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 Denmark and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Grauzone to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Infiniti,
Clear Light,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Remains,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Raincoats,
Albert Ayler,
The Trojans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
A Certain Ratio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Tremeloes,
the Human League,
Funky Four + One,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang Green,
Anthony Braxton,
Eli Mardock,
Janne Schatter,
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thompson Twins,
Slave,
Urselle,
cv313,
The Pretty Things,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lalann,
Jeru the Damaja,
Metal Thangz,
Minor Threat,
Scan 7,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Simply Red,
Al Stewart,
Chris & Cosey,
Motorama,
D'Angelo,
Soulsonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
Roxy Music,
Bang On A Can,
Henry Cow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Real Kids,
Black Sheep,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Index,
Barrington Levy,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
Kurtis Blow,
Bill Wells,
Monks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alphaville,
Massinfluence,
Fluxion,
The Dead C,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.