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 Qatar and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 F. McDonald to the dance 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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Spoonie Gee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
X-101,
Tom Boy,
Agitation Free,
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
Joey Negro,
The Standells,
JFA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Desert Stars,
Sarah Menescal,
Soft Machine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stereo Dub,
Tommy Roe,
Grauzone,
The Fugs,
The Skatalites,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soul II Soul,
Flamin' Groovies,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erasure,
Vladislav Delay,
Con Funk Shun,
Barry Ungar,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail,
Talk Talk,
Grey Daturas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Arthur Verocai,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Stooges,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Outsiders,
Cal Tjader,
The Fuzztones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bluetip,
The Grass Roots,
Loose Ends,
Crispian St. Peters,
Negative Approach,
Sandy B,
The Invisible,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter and Kerry,
Moss Icon,
Wire,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.