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 Pakistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Flash Fearless to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
PIL,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Infiniti,
Stiv Bators,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Henry Cow,
The Slackers,
Whodini,
Television Personalities,
Bad Manners,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang Green,
Essential Logic,
Newcleus,
DNA,
Howard Jones,
Sun Ra,
Blancmange,
Laurel Aitken,
Technova,
Marcia Griffiths,
Blossom Toes,
Drexciya,
John Foxx,
Minny Pops,
Basic Channel,
Bootsy Collins,
The Real Kids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David Bowie,
Lyres,
Sarah Menescal,
Roxy Music,
Scan 7,
Swans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Interpol,
Lou Reed,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
AZ,
Crime,
Spandau Ballet,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Livin' Joy,
Dennis Brown,
The Monochrome Set,
Index,
Rapeman,
Faraquet,
Zero Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lakeside,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Popol Vuh,
Soft Machine,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.