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 Pakistan and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Laurel Aitken to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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 Gories,
Alice Coltrane,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Skarface,
Rakim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kaleidoscope,
The Offenders,
Janne Schatter,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
Bad Manners,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hashim,
The Monks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Liliput,
ABBA,
Scratch Acid,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pere Ubu,
Con Funk Shun,
UT,
Quadrant,
John Lydon,
The Slackers,
Peter and Kerry,
Bill Wells,
Second Layer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Birthday Party,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yellowson,
LL Cool J,
Barry Ungar,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bauhaus,
The Moleskins,
Black Sheep,
Q and Not U,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crime,
Agitation Free,
Radiohead,
Scott Walker,
John Foxx,
Joensuu 1685,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stiv Bators,
Slick Rick,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tom Boy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
PIL,
Man Parrish,
Pole,
a-ha,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.