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 Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 Oneida to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis 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?
Whodini,
Thee Headcoats,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chris & Cosey,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Remains,
Wings,
Mark Hollis,
John Lydon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kaleidoscope,
The Beau Brummels,
Terry Callier,
Organ,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Christie,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed,
Cymande,
Animal Collective,
Aloha Tigers,
FM Einheit,
Altered Images,
the Sonics,
Carl Craig,
Brick,
Agent Orange,
Buzzcocks,
Mission of Burma,
Section 25,
Alton Ellis,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Axelrod,
The Fortunes,
Eden Ahbez,
Cybotron,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Arthur Verocai,
Rod Modell,
Zapp,
June Days,
Pantytec,
Donald Byrd,
Susan Cadogan,
Brass Construction,
Minnie Riperton,
Stockholm Monsters,
Flash Fearless,
Pharoah Sanders,
Q65,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Pretty Things,
Juan Atkins,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.