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 Chile and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Max Romeo to the disco 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Aaron Thompson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Outsiders,
Jawbox,
Thompson Twins,
Carl Craig,
Jesper Dahlback,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Wyatt,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Todd Terry,
David McCallum,
Flash Fearless,
X-102,
The Vogues,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Magma,
In Retrospect,
The Flesh Eaters,
Glenn Branca,
Minor Threat,
Max Romeo,
Peter and Kerry,
Parry Music,
Alice Coltrane,
Black Pus,
Roger Hodgson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soft Machine,
The Gun Club,
Cal Tjader,
Slick Rick,
The Wake,
Franke,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scan 7,
Index,
Eric Copeland,
Patti Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yazoo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stereo Dub,
The Move,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Zero Boys,
Robert Hood,
Simply Red,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Almond,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sun Ra,
Lower 48,
Visage,
Prince Buster,
Liliput,
Rod Modell,
CMW,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.