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 Bahamas and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 B.T. Express 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
KRS-One,
Anthony Braxton,
New Age Steppers,
Yellowson,
Kas Product,
Delon & Dalcan,
Average White Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Knickerbockers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sister Nancy,
The Residents,
Royal Trux,
James White and The Blacks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Crooked Eye,
Gerry Rafferty,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Con Funk Shun,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Colin Newman,
Flipper,
Peter & Gordon,
Television,
Lungfish,
Underground Resistance,
Wings,
T. Rex,
Nation of Ulysses,
The New Christs,
Can,
Morten Harket,
Judy Mowatt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Blancmange,
Swell Maps,
Hoover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gories,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Shoche,
Iggy Pop,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vladislav Delay,
Carl Craig,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Cybotron,
Godley & Creme,
Vainqueur,
The Invisible,
Howard Jones,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Neil Young,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.