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 Uruguay and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Black Sheep to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Brand Nubian,
Skriet,
The Sonics,
Nico,
Bill Near,
The New Christs,
Alton Ellis,
The Trojans,
The Remains,
Byron Stingily,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joey Negro,
Thompson Twins,
Scratch Acid,
Oblivians,
Section 25,
The Neon Judgement,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Divine Comedy,
D'Angelo,
Talk Talk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Red Krayola,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Mills,
Visage,
B.T. Express,
Robert Görl,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fuzztones,
The Human League,
Depeche Mode,
Camouflage,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cure,
Joe Finger,
Deakin,
Lungfish,
Steve Hackett,
Al Stewart,
Sex Pistols,
Dorothy Ashby,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
One Last Wish,
Gabor Szabo,
Kurtis Blow,
Robert Wyatt,
Panda Bear,
Camberwell Now,
Morten Harket,
FM Einheit,
Sound Behaviour,
The Wake,
Black Flag,
Sarah Menescal,
PIL,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.