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 San Marino and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the disco 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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Porter Ricks,
Mandrill,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lebanon Hanover,
FM Einheit,
KRS-One,
David Bowie,
Boredoms,
The Buckinghams,
Warren Ellis,
The Smiths,
The Raincoats,
Ludus,
Robert Hood,
Metal Thangz,
the Human League,
Massinfluence,
June Days,
Rites of Spring,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Lucky Dragons,
Yusef Lateef,
Mad Mike,
Icehouse,
The Fire Engines,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kayak,
Lightning Bolt,
Brick,
The Happenings,
Zero Boys,
Black Flag,
the Slits,
Henry Cow,
Barrington Levy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Smoke,
John Cale,
H. Thieme,
Jeff Lynne,
The Sonics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Severed Heads,
Minnie Riperton,
Vainqueur,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Patti Smith,
Ultravox,
Average White Band,
Ken Boothe,
Magma,
Excepter,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.