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 Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Ten City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radiohead,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Agitation Free,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visage,
Pantaleimon,
China Crisis,
Babytalk,
The Index,
Porter Ricks,
DNA,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pantytec,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cecil Taylor,
Alphaville,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Evens,
Soft Cell,
Tommy Roe,
Oblivians,
Section 25,
Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
The Electric Prunes,
Lungfish,
Simply Red,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cramps,
Theoretical Girls,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Holt,
Icehouse,
The Gap Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
8 Eyed Spy,
LL Cool J,
La Düsseldorf,
Lyres,
Bobby Sherman,
The Raincoats,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Pussy Galore,
Blancmange,
Faust,
Scrapy,
Pagans,
The Blues Magoos,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Flash Fearless,
Tim Buckley,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Anthony Braxton,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.