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 Hungary and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Philadelphia.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Camberwell Now to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Ronnie Foster,
Stetsasonic,
Hot Snakes,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Archie Shepp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skriet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warren Ellis,
The Victims,
Q65,
The Smoke,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ten City,
Kas Product,
The Cramps,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Durutti Column,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bad Manners,
Wasted Youth,
Cymande,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang Green,
David Bowie,
Bob Dylan,
Suicide,
Lower 48,
X-101,
Dennis Brown,
Excepter,
Ronan,
Mantronix,
the Soft Cell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Gang Starr,
K-Klass,
FM Einheit,
Audionom,
The Gap Band,
The Grass Roots,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control,
Depeche Mode,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Saccharine Trust,
The Knickerbockers,
Sexual Harrassment,
New Order,
Thompson Twins,
David McCallum,
Amon Düül II,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crispian St. Peters,
Brand Nubian,
Monolake,
The Five Americans,
New Age Steppers,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.