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 United Kingdom and from London.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Schoolly D to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Last Poets,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed,
Suburban Knight,
Al Stewart,
Charles Mingus,
Bill Near,
MC5,
Section 25,
The Gun Club,
The New Christs,
Crime,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks,
Agent Orange,
Monks,
Arab on Radar,
Tres Demented,
Depeche Mode,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Victims,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Names,
Yaz,
Rotary Connection,
Hardrive,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
This Heat,
Cymande,
The American Breed,
Jeff Mills,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker,
June Days,
Nils Olav,
New Age Steppers,
Derrick May,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
K-Klass,
Eric Copeland,
John Holt,
Marshall Jefferson,
Radiohead,
The Grass Roots,
Steve Hackett,
In Retrospect,
Wire,
Blancmange,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Brass Construction,
Lalann,
Mantronix,
Morten Harket,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.