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 Congo and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Chrome to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Grey Daturas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Procol Harum,
OOIOO,
Peter and Kerry,
Kevin Saunderson,
Television Personalities,
Newcleus,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Swell Maps,
Banda Bassotti,
The Grass Roots,
Simply Red,
Sound Behaviour,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oneida,
Das Ding,
The Invisible,
Qualms,
Black Pus,
Soft Machine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Heaven 17,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald,
Reagan Youth,
Alphaville,
The Monks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Zero Boys,
Delta 5,
Joensuu 1685,
Main Source,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tomorrow,
Technova,
The Kinks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ohio Players,
Duran Duran,
James White and The Blacks,
The Human League,
Bang On A Can,
The Birthday Party,
Little Man,
These Immortal Souls,
Sugar Minott,
Swans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Davy DMX,
Flipper,
DNA,
Lou Reed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sun City Girls,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.