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 Guatemala and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fear to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Byron Stingily,
Sarah Menescal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Golliwogs,
The Vogues,
Colin Newman,
The Sound,
Ten City,
UT,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grey Daturas,
Nas,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Banda Bassotti,
Chris Corsano,
Albert Ayler,
Ossler,
Matthew Halsall,
Shoche,
Hot Snakes,
The Raincoats,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soulsonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roxy Music,
Average White Band,
Livin' Joy,
Schoolly D,
Drive Like Jehu,
Neil Young,
Jacques Brel,
Wings,
Skaos,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Foxx,
Whodini,
The Music Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Scan 7,
The Fortunes,
Dave Gahan,
The Victims,
Bad Manners,
David McCallum,
Mo-Dettes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flash Fearless,
Sällskapet,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bob Dylan,
Stereo Dub,
Bush Tetras,
Eurythmics,
D'Angelo,
Newcleus,
LL Cool J,
Janne Schatter,
The Smiths,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.