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 Turkey and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 linndrum 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the jazz 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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Misunderstood,
Michelle Simonal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nik Kershaw,
Maurizio,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Oneida,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Visage,
Robert Görl,
Aswad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Althea and Donna,
Average White Band,
The Grass Roots,
The Residents,
Juan Atkins,
The Trojans,
Yaz,
Bush Tetras,
Fat Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
The Happenings,
Theoretical Girls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Star Department,
Suicide,
Aural Exciters,
Half Japanese,
Wire,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dead Boys,
Gang of Four,
Archie Shepp,
Blake Baxter,
Thompson Twins,
Audionom,
Bad Manners,
Arab on Radar,
Connie Case,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Index,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fluxion,
Flipper,
David Bowie,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nas,
Franke,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Magazine,
Television,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Womack,
Sällskapet,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.