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 Argentina and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Black Sheep to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television,
Godley & Creme,
Rapeman,
Tommy Roe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Archie Shepp,
Alton Ellis,
Steve Hackett,
Chris & Cosey,
Sällskapet,
Rod Modell,
Amazonics,
Faust,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bush Tetras,
X-101,
Scan 7,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tomorrow,
Agitation Free,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hasil Adkins,
Pylon,
Arab on Radar,
Television Personalities,
Man Parrish,
DJ Style,
Radio Birdman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
CMW,
Deadbeat,
the Normal,
ABC,
Aural Exciters,
The Doors,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jacob Miller,
The Monks,
Cecil Taylor,
Ohio Players,
the Germs,
Desert Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Section 25,
Scratch Acid,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alison Limerick,
Liliput,
The Misunderstood,
Circle Jerks,
Eric Dolphy,
Minor Threat,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.