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 Cuba and from Glasgow.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar 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 The Fortunes to the jazz 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and an organ 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 theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Pet Shop Boys,
Scratch Acid,
Boz Scaggs,
Animal Collective,
Bronski Beat,
Pantytec,
Robert Görl,
Eric Copeland,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mad Mike,
Minor Threat,
Half Japanese,
Albert Ayler,
Blake Baxter,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sex Pistols,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joyce Sims,
Gong,
Kayak,
The Gories,
AZ,
Kas Product,
Lucky Dragons,
Country Teasers,
Delta 5,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Average White Band,
KRS-One,
Ohio Players,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swans,
Camouflage,
Electric Prunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ituana,
Carl Craig,
LL Cool J,
The Names,
Erykah Badu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Livin' Joy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fad Gadget,
Reuben Wilson,
B.T. Express,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter & Gordon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minutemen,
The Real Kids,
The Monks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Star Department,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.