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 Costa Rica and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Pylon to the dance 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers,
One Last Wish,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Vogues,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Donald Byrd,
The Monochrome Set,
Judy Mowatt,
the Germs,
Scan 7,
Sister Nancy,
U.S. Maple,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nick Fraelich,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ultravox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nils Olav,
The Monks,
Shuggie Otis,
JFA,
Toni Rubio,
Joey Negro,
The Dead C,
Supertramp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Barracudas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pere Ubu,
Nation of Ulysses,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cluster,
Gong,
B.T. Express,
Franke,
The Toasters,
the Soft Cell,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Peter & Gordon,
Theoretical Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
Patti Smith,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Warsaw,
Little Man,
Rufus Thomas,
Pylon,
Pantaleimon,
Pussy Galore,
Marvin Gaye,
Josef K,
The Blues Magoos,
Harmonia,
Barry Ungar,
John Coltrane,
The Seeds,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.