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 Ethiopia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Barracudas to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echospace,
Girls At Our Best!,
Faraquet,
Nico,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gang Starr,
Electric Prunes,
Black Bananas,
Isaac Hayes,
Interpol,
L. Decosne,
E-Dancer,
Lucky Dragons,
Agitation Free,
The Offenders,
The Buckinghams,
the Swans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Man Eating Sloth,
Hashim,
Faust,
The Evens,
Sugar Minott,
Marmalade,
Second Layer,
The Dirtbombs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cymande,
DNA,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Suicide,
Marvin Gaye,
John Lydon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Harmonia,
cv313,
Lightning Bolt,
The Associates,
The Fall,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fugs,
Pylon,
The Star Department,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kerri Chandler,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sonic Youth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Drexciya,
One Last Wish,
Anthony Braxton,
John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.