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 Senegal and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Mighty Diamonds to the rock 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Monks,
Marvin Gaye,
Audionom,
The New Christs,
Stereo Dub,
Alison Limerick,
Metal Thangz,
Bronski Beat,
Gong,
Ronan,
Peter & Gordon,
Zero Boys,
In Retrospect,
The Standells,
Avey Tare,
Eden Ahbez,
Pantaleimon,
The Residents,
Andrew Hill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scratch Acid,
Make Up,
Deadbeat,
Darondo,
Guru Guru,
Ultimate Spinach,
Fugazi,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yellowson,
Qualms,
Kerri Chandler,
Stiv Bators,
CMW,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Maurizio,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camberwell Now,
Jawbox,
Lightning Bolt,
Max Romeo,
Faust,
Sun Ra,
The Skatalites,
Lindisfarne,
The American Breed,
Nas,
The Kinks,
Tom Boy,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Desert Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
Symarip,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.