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 Croatia and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar 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 Easy Going to the grime 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
La Düsseldorf,
Davy DMX,
Chris Corsano,
Public Image Ltd.,
Radiohead,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jacob Miller,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sun Ra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick May,
The Gladiators,
The Electric Prunes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Colin Newman,
Sonic Youth,
Deadbeat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Circle Jerks,
Average White Band,
Pierre Henry,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Intrusion,
The Index,
Fluxion,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rosa Yemen,
Suicide,
Bootsy Collins,
the Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Camberwell Now,
A Certain Ratio,
Urselle,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ornette Coleman,
Fad Gadget,
Eurythmics,
Sex Pistols,
Organ,
Tropical Tobacco,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Cale,
John Coltrane,
The Alarm Clocks,
New York Dolls,
Robert Wyatt,
ABC,
Mary Jane Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
Kas Product,
The Gun Club,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.