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 Tajikistan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 The Invisible to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Susan Cadogan,
Jandek,
the Sonics,
Tom Boy,
Derrick Morgan,
Funky Four + One,
Kas Product,
DJ Sneak,
Man Parrish,
Scratch Acid,
Lucky Dragons,
Davy DMX,
Marine Girls,
John Cale,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crash Course in Science,
The Invisible,
Wally Richardson,
Rotary Connection,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Arab on Radar,
Das Ding,
Young Marble Giants,
The Offenders,
Harmonia,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barry Ungar,
Slave,
Carl Craig,
Cymande,
La Düsseldorf,
Alton Ellis,
Eurythmics,
Max Romeo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
June Days,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Erasure,
Kerri Chandler,
Accadde A,
The Last Poets,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Quantec,
Faraquet,
Alison Limerick,
Laurel Aitken,
Scan 7,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tres Demented,
K-Klass,
Josef K,
Country Teasers,
The Knickerbockers,
The Wake,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.