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 Bolivia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Evens to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Audionom,
Roxy Music,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Prunes,
Spoonie Gee,
Howard Jones,
Gichy Dan,
Minutemen,
Erasure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scratch Acid,
Aswad,
Dual Sessions,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sound Behaviour,
Alison Limerick,
Royal Trux,
Gong,
Gregory Isaacs,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Evens,
Organ,
Section 25,
Franke,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites,
Amazonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Khruangbin,
Bootsy Collins,
The Litter,
Unwound,
Ultravox,
Iggy Pop,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
FM Einheit,
Henry Cow,
Scientists,
Brick,
Lyres,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Golliwogs,
The Smiths,
David Axelrod,
The Cramps,
The Beau Brummels,
The Wake,
Moss Icon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Swans,
Malaria!,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric Dolphy,
the Slits,
Swans,
Nik Kershaw,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yazoo,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.