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 Grenada and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bobby Byrd to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Echospace,
The Fortunes,
FM Einheit,
MC5,
Sandy B,
Sixth Finger,
Organ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nas,
Scan 7,
Mantronix,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
World's Most,
the Sonics,
Grauzone,
Suicide,
kango's stein massive,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Malaria!,
David Axelrod,
Aloha Tigers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Modern Lovers,
Mandrill,
The Searchers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eddi Front,
Alphaville,
Nick Fraelich,
Skaos,
Byron Stingily,
Tom Boy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Michelle Simonal,
The Divine Comedy,
The Angels of Light,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Warsaw,
Shoche,
Brick,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scrapy,
Warren Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
Tommy Roe,
Smog,
The Cosmic Jokers,
D'Angelo,
June Days,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roxette,
Lyres,
Rakim,
Skriet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
Qualms,
New Order,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.