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 Azerbaijan and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lou Reed 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Mars,
Jeru the Damaja,
Howard Jones,
Nico,
Pagans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
Das Ding,
The Blues Magoos,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Little Man,
The Names,
Lindisfarne,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
Shuggie Otis,
Banda Bassotti,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fire Engines,
The J.B.'s,
Alton Ellis,
JFA,
Pantaleimon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Popol Vuh,
The Happenings,
Ronnie Foster,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Angels of Light,
Ponytail,
Matthew Bourne,
Minor Threat,
Subhumans,
Albert Ayler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marvin Gaye,
Yazoo,
Tom Boy,
the Sonics,
Funky Four + One,
Ludus,
Section 25,
The Mojo Men,
Newcleus,
Tubeway Army,
Joyce Sims,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Clarke,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Pole,
Skarface,
The Move,
The Sonics,
Davy DMX,
Roxette,
Cecil Taylor,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.