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 Syria and from Mexico City.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the electroclash 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
K-Klass,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gastr Del Sol,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Anthony Braxton,
Accadde A,
Aural Exciters,
Sandy B,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ten City,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Moleskins,
the Bar-Kays,
Lou Christie,
The Slits,
Ice-T,
Black Pus,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brass Construction,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barbara Tucker,
Alison Limerick,
T.S.O.L.,
Toni Rubio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MC5,
Sight & Sound,
X-101,
Neu!,
Essential Logic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scratch Acid,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jacob Miller,
Dawn Penn,
Lower 48,
Traffic Nightmare,
Theoretical Girls,
The Raincoats,
The Mummies,
ABC,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Motorama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Second Layer,
Fad Gadget,
Quadrant,
Bad Manners,
The Fortunes,
Pantaleimon,
The Saints,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bizarre Inc.,
Half Japanese,
The Gap Band,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.