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 Bulgaria and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 Zero Boys to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
H. Thieme,
Colin Newman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gong,
Sun Ra,
Franke,
The Names,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
MC5,
Bizarre Inc.,
Can,
Patti Smith,
Sun City Girls,
Saccharine Trust,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Flipper,
The Birthday Party,
Gang of Four,
The Angels of Light,
U.S. Maple,
Piero Umiliani,
Ponytail,
The Fall,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Moon,
Nirvana,
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
The Gap Band,
Ultra Naté,
Charles Mingus,
Theoretical Girls,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lucky Dragons,
Toni Rubio,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Invisible,
Q65,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Hill,
Symarip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brothers Johnson,
Young Marble Giants,
Tim Buckley,
Johnny Osbourne,
Royal Trux,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Faust,
Scrapy,
Ken Boothe,
Peter and Kerry,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.