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 Brunei and from Taipei.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar 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 Adolescents to the rap 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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Massinfluence,
Todd Rundgren,
Animal Collective,
Smog,
Saccharine Trust,
Ice-T,
Morten Harket,
Cymande,
Surgeon,
The Names,
Can,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
June of 44,
Buzzcocks,
Television,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Style,
Popol Vuh,
Pierre Henry,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camouflage,
Camberwell Now,
The Standells,
cv313,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Moebius,
Barclay James Harvest,
H. Thieme,
The Buckinghams,
Porter Ricks,
Royal Trux,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Starr,
Terry Callier,
Tubeway Army,
The Move,
Minor Threat,
The Martian,
Quando Quango,
Basic Channel,
D'Angelo,
The Gories,
Public Enemy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bronski Beat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Easy Going,
Whodini,
Electric Prunes,
T. Rex,
Soulsonic Force,
The Evens,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Selecter,
Idris Muhammad,
The Moody Blues,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dual Sessions,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.