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 Italy and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Ralphi Rosario,
Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Ponytail,
The Mojo Men,
Gil Scott Heron,
FM Einheit,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Moon,
Tom Boy,
the Soft Cell,
Aloha Tigers,
Main Source,
Leonard Cohen,
Desert Stars,
Severed Heads,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Human League,
Yazoo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bill Wells,
The Electric Prunes,
Absolute Body Control,
Scratch Acid,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Kinks,
Brand Nubian,
Sex Pistols,
Ice-T,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arcadia,
Rod Modell,
Blancmange,
Janne Schatter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Silicon Teens,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Whodini,
Technova,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ultravox,
the Normal,
The Five Americans,
The Young Rascals,
Neil Young,
The Fortunes,
The Gap Band,
Junior Murvin,
Blossom Toes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fugazi,
The Offenders,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joy Division,
Anthony Braxton,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lower 48,
Can,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.