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 Paraguay and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the dance 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Ten City,
Juan Atkins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lower 48,
Scion,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Blake Baxter,
Motorama,
The Moleskins,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Barracudas,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Harpers Bizarre,
Silicon Teens,
MDC,
Aaron Thompson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Dave Clark Five,
Main Source,
DJ Style,
The Doors,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bluetip,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Hood,
Aswad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deakin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Finger,
Camberwell Now,
OOIOO,
Isaac Hayes,
The Red Krayola,
Youth Brigade,
The Dirtbombs,
Al Stewart,
Eric Dolphy,
Royal Trux,
Surgeon,
Sister Nancy,
Agitation Free,
Avey Tare,
Amon Düül,
Arthur Verocai,
Marcia Griffiths,
MC5,
Barbara Tucker,
Skarface,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
CMW,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobby Sherman,
China Crisis,
The Victims,
The Stooges,
Fifty Foot Hose,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
Godley & Creme,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.