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 Micronesia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pantytec to the rock 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
John Foxx,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sonny Sharrock,
FM Einheit,
Dave Gahan,
OOIOO,
Idris Muhammad,
Barry Ungar,
Matthew Halsall,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Christie,
Ultra Naté,
Fear,
Joe Smooth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Smog,
Tubeway Army,
Porter Ricks,
The Pretty Things,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mojo Men,
Sexual Harrassment,
Intrusion,
Boz Scaggs,
Yusef Lateef,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Byrd,
World's Most,
Barclay James Harvest,
New York Dolls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
H. Thieme,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Busters,
Sällskapet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eli Mardock,
Grandmaster Flash,
New Age Steppers,
Yazoo,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Invisible,
Mars,
Quando Quango,
Jerry's Kids,
Be Bop Deluxe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Motorama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Raincoats,
Bronski Beat,
Barbara Tucker,
Gong,
Moss Icon,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.