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 Oman and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 Zeros to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alton Ellis,
Tim Buckley,
Rekid,
The Happenings,
Simply Red,
Lower 48,
a-ha,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Suicide,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Royal Trux,
Laurel Aitken,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hoover,
Severed Heads,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Grass Roots,
The Associates,
Rites of Spring,
Joey Negro,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jandek,
Sun City Girls,
Bush Tetras,
Surgeon,
Arthur Verocai,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eric Copeland,
The Modern Lovers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Half Japanese,
Andrew Hill,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shoche,
Lakeside,
Bang On A Can,
Leonard Cohen,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fugs,
Scott Walker,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeff Lynne,
Matthew Halsall,
Nils Olav,
Make Up,
the Human League,
Crooked Eye,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.