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 Australia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Vogues to the jazz 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike,
Tim Buckley,
Agent Orange,
Delta 5,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gladiators,
Derrick Morgan,
Funkadelic,
Morten Harket,
Donny Hathaway,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Idris Muhammad,
Masters at Work,
The Sonics,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ralphi Rosario,
Throbbing Gristle,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scion,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dead Boys,
Jerry's Kids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mummies,
Josef K,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Litter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Moon,
Scan 7,
Black Pus,
Roy Ayers,
The Shadows of Knight,
H. Thieme,
Procol Harum,
The Busters,
Marmalade,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
Camouflage,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Sheep,
Sugar Minott,
the Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
Thompson Twins,
The Young Rascals,
DJ Sneak,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Barrington Levy,
John Cale,
Sällskapet,
Ice-T,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.