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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 World's Most to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Soft Cell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Los Fastidios,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Technova,
Terry Callier,
Morten Harket,
The Slits,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Slave,
The Doobie Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
Ice-T,
The United States of America,
Gabor Szabo,
The Electric Prunes,
Groovy Waters,
The Five Americans,
Johnny Clarke,
Banda Bassotti,
PIL,
Easy Going,
Nas,
Swell Maps,
La Düsseldorf,
Funkadelic,
The Neon Judgement,
Adolescents,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ronan,
Alice Coltrane,
Suicide,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kayak,
Michelle Simonal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gichy Dan,
Pere Ubu,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
These Immortal Souls,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Barracudas,
KRS-One,
Pussy Galore,
Dennis Brown,
Barbara Tucker,
Monolake,
Crispy Ambulance,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Rod Modell,
Tim Buckley,
The Modern Lovers,
Amon Düül,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.