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 Guyana and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum 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 Audionom to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Minor Threat,
Eric Copeland,
The Motions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minny Pops,
K-Klass,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Human League,
the Sonics,
The Star Department,
The Saints,
Rakim,
Banda Bassotti,
Vainqueur,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boz Scaggs,
John Cale,
Scan 7,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Smog,
KRS-One,
Inner City,
Duran Duran,
Sonic Youth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gang of Four,
Jacob Miller,
Guru Guru,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Searchers,
Tomorrow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
OOIOO,
Stiv Bators,
Adolescents,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
Sister Nancy,
Severed Heads,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chrome,
JFA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Normal,
Joe Finger,
Excepter,
Howard Jones,
The Remains,
Cymande,
Soulsonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.