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 Slovakia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quantec to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Coltrane,
Warsaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Deadbeat,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobby Sherman,
Joe Smooth,
The Dead C,
The Searchers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Christie,
Marine Girls,
Scion,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gong,
The Pop Group,
Gang Green,
The Walker Brothers,
Robert Hood,
The Zeros,
Archie Shepp,
Drexciya,
Buzzcocks,
Funky Four + One,
Arcadia,
Joe Finger,
Fad Gadget,
Ronan,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rites of Spring,
Audionom,
The Moody Blues,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bluetip,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
Sister Nancy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Icehouse,
The Wake,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cowsills,
Porter Ricks,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
Warren Ellis,
L. Decosne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Erykah Badu,
Negative Approach,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wasted Youth,
the Germs,
Harry Pussy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Invisible,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.