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 Barbados and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Technova to the crunk 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Guru Guru,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ornette Coleman,
Y Pants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Johnny Clarke,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Sonics,
Jeff Mills,
Leonard Cohen,
The Offenders,
Piero Umiliani,
Bill Wells,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Letta Mbulu,
Das Ding,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Howard Jones,
Excepter,
Cecil Taylor,
Marc Almond,
the Normal,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Royal Trux,
Agitation Free,
Brass Construction,
Fatback Band,
Eddi Front,
Roxette,
Matthew Bourne,
Aswad,
Vainqueur,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Music Machine,
Joe Finger,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nas,
Alton Ellis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Silicon Teens,
Section 25,
Quantec,
Kaleidoscope,
Joey Negro,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kayak,
Glenn Branca,
Lightning Bolt,
Anthony Braxton,
Joy Division,
Tommy Roe,
FM Einheit,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pylon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
ABBA,
Dawn Penn,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.