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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Victims to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Toasters,
Kenny Larkin,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brass Construction,
Neil Young,
Pole,
Interpol,
Popol Vuh,
Bad Manners,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marine Girls,
Icehouse,
Gang Green,
Iggy Pop,
Yusef Lateef,
The Motions,
Amon Düül,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cal Tjader,
Kas Product,
Black Bananas,
Maurizio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Shuggie Otis,
Dead Boys,
The Pretty Things,
The Moody Blues,
Au Pairs,
Sun Ra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Surgeon,
Blancmange,
The Sonics,
Bootsy Collins,
The Stooges,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lower 48,
Minnie Riperton,
Minor Threat,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Doors,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Symarip,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marvin Gaye,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
One Last Wish,
Peter and Kerry,
Magma,
Bush Tetras,
Rapeman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jeff Lynne,
KRS-One,
Hasil Adkins,
The Buckinghams,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Qualms,
The Modern Lovers,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.