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 Nigeria and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare 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 Robert Hood to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
FM Einheit,
Radiopuhelimet,
AZ,
The Modern Lovers,
Bronski Beat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minny Pops,
Quantec,
Cameo,
Lakeside,
Gichy Dan,
Trumans Water,
Half Japanese,
The Trojans,
Johnny Clarke,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
John Coltrane,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultravox,
Livin' Joy,
David Axelrod,
Cybotron,
Little Man,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pretty Things,
Fatback Band,
Symarip,
Archie Shepp,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed,
The Smiths,
the Sonics,
New Age Steppers,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fire Engines,
Siglo XX,
Angry Samoans,
Babytalk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stereo Dub,
Public Enemy,
Chrome,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Wake,
Magma,
Bobby Womack,
The Divine Comedy,
The United States of America,
Technova,
Inner City,
Sandy B,
The Angels of Light,
Wally Richardson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.