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 Venezuela and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dead Boys to the crunk 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
Mantronix,
Marine Girls,
Section 25,
Deepchord,
Sun Ra,
Tommy Roe,
The Dirtbombs,
Isaac Hayes,
Pere Ubu,
Bootsy Collins,
Fad Gadget,
Smog,
Barrington Levy,
Neil Young,
Iggy Pop,
Gil Scott Heron,
Public Enemy,
The Moody Blues,
Drive Like Jehu,
New Order,
Neu!,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Christie,
Lalann,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Easy Going,
Michelle Simonal,
Stetsasonic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeff Lynne,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barry Ungar,
Flipper,
Joyce Sims,
The Seeds,
The Skatalites,
The Count Five,
Malaria!,
FM Einheit,
Eddi Front,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fall,
Marc Almond,
Todd Rundgren,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Velvet Underground,
Pylon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wasted Youth,
Infiniti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Robert Hood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nils Olav,
Aural Exciters,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.