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 Namibia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Flipper to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Names. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marine Girls,
Nico,
the Slits,
The Buckinghams,
Cabaret Voltaire,
cv313,
Agent Orange,
Trumans Water,
Michelle Simonal,
The Monks,
kango's stein massive,
Sugar Minott,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oneida,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Agitation Free,
Sandy B,
Davy DMX,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brand Nubian,
Soft Cell,
Mandrill,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Connie Case,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ken Boothe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Young Rascals,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Stooges,
Yellowson,
EPMD,
Roxette,
Essential Logic,
DJ Style,
Scion,
Marmalade,
Jeff Lynne,
Symarip,
Lou Reed,
H. Thieme,
The Slits,
The Evens,
Royal Trux,
Throbbing Gristle,
Babytalk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Görl,
Gong,
These Immortal Souls,
Wings,
The Misunderstood,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.