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 Lebanon and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Halifax.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Malaria! 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
John Foxx,
The Seeds,
Loose Ends,
Oblivians,
Barbara Tucker,
A Certain Ratio,
Funky Four + One,
Mission of Burma,
Pharoah Sanders,
Monolake,
Steve Hackett,
Erykah Badu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
June of 44,
The Index,
Mantronix,
Outsiders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Trojans,
Liliput,
Cal Tjader,
LL Cool J,
Thompson Twins,
Royal Trux,
X-Ray Spex,
Joe Finger,
Gang Green,
The Vogues,
Connie Case,
Soft Machine,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Piero Umiliani,
Smog,
The Fuzztones,
Magma,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Association,
Quando Quango,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roxette,
Tomorrow,
D'Angelo,
Tres Demented,
Fat Boys,
MDC,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Starr,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Anakelly,
Minny Pops,
Eurythmics,
The Pretty Things,
Malaria!,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Ken Boothe,
Avey Tare,
Scratch Acid,
Cheater Slicks,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.