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 Cuba and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Von Mondo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
The Pop Group,
Delon & Dalcan,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Holt,
Nils Olav,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Sonics,
The New Christs,
Icehouse,
MDC,
Agitation Free,
Lalann,
Little Man,
Aloha Tigers,
Todd Rundgren,
Tomorrow,
Smog,
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
Ultravox,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sun Ra,
Hashim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
PIL,
The Residents,
Groovy Waters,
Siglo XX,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Derrick May,
FM Einheit,
Sonic Youth,
LL Cool J,
The Blackbyrds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Alison Limerick,
Flipper,
Sandy B,
The Doobie Brothers,
ABC,
Deakin,
Skaos,
Lindisfarne,
The Gladiators,
Boogie Down Productions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Idris Muhammad,
Aswad,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobby Womack,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.