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 Canada and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Kayak to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Lalann 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Johnny Clarke,
Interpol,
Circle Jerks,
Rotary Connection,
Yellowson,
cv313,
Gang Green,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magazine,
DNA,
B.T. Express,
Boredoms,
Slick Rick,
Bronski Beat,
PIL,
The Sonics,
Bizarre Inc.,
The American Breed,
Altered Images,
The Flesh Eaters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Japan,
Second Layer,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kerrie Biddell,
Todd Rundgren,
Marmalade,
Jesper Dahlback,
CMW,
Mad Mike,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Royal Trux,
David McCallum,
Rosa Yemen,
Sonic Youth,
The Names,
Ice-T,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Starr,
Juan Atkins,
Chris Corsano,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moby Grape,
Ronan,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Axelrod,
Eden Ahbez,
Fear,
Arab on Radar,
Wally Richardson,
Subhumans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lightning Bolt,
Aswad,
Wings,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Cale,
Ludus,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.