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 Ireland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rakim to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Searchers,
Gabor Szabo,
Gong,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Leaves,
Theoretical Girls,
Harpers Bizarre,
kango's stein massive,
Pussy Galore,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thompson Twins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Severed Heads,
Altered Images,
The Slits,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Pylon,
Bluetip,
Anakelly,
Pere Ubu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Negative Approach,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Godley & Creme,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tommy Roe,
The Wake,
Monolake,
June of 44,
Idris Muhammad,
Pierre Henry,
AZ,
Glenn Branca,
Blake Baxter,
Au Pairs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Inner City,
Black Pus,
Warren Ellis,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobby Womack,
Y Pants,
Quantec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Ituana,
Silicon Teens,
Amon Düül II,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Guru Guru,
Sam Rivers,
Vladislav Delay,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.