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 Laos and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Josef K to the grunge 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar 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 spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Howard Jones,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Index,
Marcia Griffiths,
Radio Birdman,
the Germs,
Tubeway Army,
Delon & Dalcan,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
Oneida,
Derrick May,
Kool Moe Dee,
Unwound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amon Düül,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Unrelated Segments,
The Last Poets,
Pagans,
Spoonie Gee,
Soul II Soul,
Thee Headcoats,
Wings,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ornette Coleman,
David McCallum,
the Normal,
Outsiders,
Angry Samoans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Magma,
L. Decosne,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
La Düsseldorf,
Sixth Finger,
Robert Wyatt,
Mandrill,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camberwell Now,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Age Steppers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mars,
Minnie Riperton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Desert Stars,
Danielle Patucci,
Skaos,
Marvin Gaye,
the Human League,
The Selecter,
Babytalk,
Subhumans,
Freddie Wadling,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.