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 Zimbabwe and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Fat Boys to the jazz 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
X-Ray Spex,
The Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Rosa Yemen,
Kurtis Blow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eden Ahbez,
Buzzcocks,
Japan,
Bush Tetras,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiopuhelimet,
8 Eyed Spy,
Prince Buster,
Ohio Players,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
LL Cool J,
Black Bananas,
Depeche Mode,
Young Marble Giants,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Scan 7,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxy Music,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeff Lynne,
Swans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Agent Orange,
Loose Ends,
Ossler,
Royal Trux,
Qualms,
Gregory Isaacs,
Morten Harket,
Fugazi,
The Smiths,
Stetsasonic,
Cybotron,
Thee Headcoats,
Second Layer,
Newcleus,
Easy Going,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls,
MDC,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun Ra,
Johnny Clarke,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grandmaster Flash,
Letta Mbulu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.