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 Solomon Islands and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Audionom to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Smog,
Stetsasonic,
Guru Guru,
8 Eyed Spy,
Interpol,
the Swans,
48th St. Collective,
KRS-One,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Arab on Radar,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Au Pairs,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Prunes,
Bill Near,
Alphaville,
Crispy Ambulance,
Todd Terry,
Slave,
The Gap Band,
The Gun Club,
Rakim,
Darondo,
Lungfish,
The American Breed,
Mantronix,
The Busters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fat Boys,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
K-Klass,
The Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
The Angels of Light,
the Slits,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dark Day,
Underground Resistance,
Ludus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
EPMD,
Jandek,
Rapeman,
Howard Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Minutemen,
Severed Heads,
The Blackbyrds,
The Shadows of Knight,
Quantec,
Kenny Larkin,
Arcadia,
Swell Maps,
Erykah Badu,
Yellowson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.