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 Kiribati 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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Section 25 to the grime 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Shuggie Otis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marc Almond,
The Zeros,
Minnie Riperton,
The Music Machine,
Sun Ra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Agitation Free,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Echospace,
Lalann,
Public Image Ltd.,
Matthew Halsall,
the Swans,
The Red Krayola,
Brass Construction,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Maleditus Sound,
Sällskapet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dawn Penn,
Lou Christie,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Royal Trux,
Yazoo,
Wasted Youth,
Joe Finger,
Newcleus,
Rotary Connection,
The Star Department,
Mary Jane Girls,
Clear Light,
Scion,
Matthew Bourne,
D'Angelo,
X-101,
The Fire Engines,
Eurythmics,
Ituana,
B.T. Express,
The New Christs,
Soul II Soul,
Drexciya,
Freddie Wadling,
The Walker Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
K-Klass,
Ice-T,
Juan Atkins,
Tom Boy,
ABC,
Grauzone,
Susan Cadogan,
EPMD,
Liliput,
Livin' Joy,
Fad Gadget,
Reuben Wilson,
Quantec,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.