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 India and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Harpers Bizarre 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Soulsonic Force,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Evens,
Sonic Youth,
Banda Bassotti,
Ossler,
Moss Icon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Au Pairs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bob Dylan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Patti Smith,
Scientists,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Livin' Joy,
Section 25,
Visage,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tim Buckley,
Yazoo,
The Selecter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gong,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Red Krayola,
Scott Walker,
The Birthday Party,
Barbara Tucker,
Pole,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Raincoats,
The Seeds,
Ludus,
The Mummies,
Todd Rundgren,
D'Angelo,
Nick Fraelich,
Kurtis Blow,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marc Almond,
Yusef Lateef,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Velvet Underground,
Inner City,
Surgeon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thee Headcoats,
LL Cool J,
Cluster,
Jeff Mills,
Mantronix,
The Durutti Column,
Eurythmics,
Symarip,
Neil Young,
Pulsallama,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Faust,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.