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 India and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sun City Girls to the crunk 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Camberwell Now,
Isaac Hayes,
AZ,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ice-T,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Raincoats,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lower 48,
Dennis Brown,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bad Manners,
Motorama,
Spoonie Gee,
James White and The Blacks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sister Nancy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Charles Mingus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Clear Light,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Letta Mbulu,
Kerri Chandler,
A Certain Ratio,
Roxy Music,
Bill Wells,
PIL,
a-ha,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Arthur Verocai,
Funkadelic,
The Blackbyrds,
Alice Coltrane,
Alphaville,
DNA,
Lucky Dragons,
Yusef Lateef,
Metal Thangz,
Susan Cadogan,
Bobby Womack,
Delta 5,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott Heron,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Foxx,
ABC,
UT,
Henry Cow,
Joe Smooth,
Stiv Bators,
John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Smog,
Donny Hathaway,
Mr. Review,
Audionom,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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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.