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 Mauritius and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marcia Griffiths to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Outsiders,
Saccharine Trust,
Sällskapet,
Sex Pistols,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
Pere Ubu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Schoolly D,
Moebius,
Pylon,
Scrapy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Moby Grape,
Panda Bear,
Surgeon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Birthday Party,
Joe Smooth,
Ice-T,
The Zeros,
Fatback Band,
T. Rex,
Rekid,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wasted Youth,
Intrusion,
Roxette,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
Eve St. Jones,
Brand Nubian,
Lou Christie,
the Slits,
Alton Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bluetip,
Crash Course in Science,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chris Corsano,
Accadde A,
The Motions,
Sun Ra,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Connie Case,
A Certain Ratio,
Brass Construction,
Lucky Dragons,
Absolute Body Control,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Qualms,
David Bowie,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Seeds,
Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Au Pairs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.