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 Mexico 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 MC5 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Bluetip,
Cal Tjader,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Piero Umiliani,
Theoretical Girls,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultra Naté,
Soft Machine,
Mark Hollis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Saccharine Trust,
The Saints,
The Happenings,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Man Parrish,
Zapp,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Neu!,
The Angels of Light,
Nick Fraelich,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joey Negro,
The Smiths,
Angry Samoans,
T.S.O.L.,
Bad Manners,
Marc Almond,
Nas,
Newcleus,
Erykah Badu,
Goldenarms,
JFA,
Brand Nubian,
The Slackers,
the Sonics,
The Red Krayola,
Dennis Brown,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marmalade,
Chris Corsano,
David McCallum,
Camouflage,
Johnny Clarke,
Dawn Penn,
The Residents,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ohio Players,
Soul II Soul,
Half Japanese,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Althea and Donna,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hardrive,
Bobby Womack,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Names,
Fat Boys,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Icehouse,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.