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 Equatorial Guinea and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin 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 Sugar Minott to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Davy DMX,
Blake Baxter,
Mad Mike,
FM Einheit,
John Lydon,
Inner City,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fugazi,
The Residents,
Average White Band,
the Sonics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amazonics,
Faraquet,
The Human League,
Babytalk,
Bush Tetras,
Flipper,
Sound Behaviour,
The Blackbyrds,
Jawbox,
Susan Cadogan,
New York Dolls,
Gabor Szabo,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
Jacques Brel,
The Selecter,
The Mummies,
Joe Finger,
Roxy Music,
Outsiders,
Clear Light,
Ossler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scrapy,
LL Cool J,
Popol Vuh,
Jimmy McGriff,
Saccharine Trust,
8 Eyed Spy,
Royal Trux,
Rufus Thomas,
Bauhaus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cymande,
Bill Wells,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Darondo,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ten City,
The Kinks,
Von Mondo,
Das Ding,
Scion,
Johnny Osbourne,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.