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 Iceland and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pylon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mark Hollis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ultra Naté,
B.T. Express,
Fat Boys,
The Cramps,
The Angels of Light,
The Alarm Clocks,
Zero Boys,
Fluxion,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marmalade,
Hardrive,
Stetsasonic,
Malaria!,
The Golliwogs,
Clear Light,
The Raincoats,
Ronan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pierre Henry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wings,
The Mummies,
The Seeds,
Hashim,
Bootsy Collins,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Iggy Pop,
The Beau Brummels,
Con Funk Shun,
Alphaville,
The Dead C,
Q and Not U,
Gang Green,
Skaos,
Kevin Saunderson,
Quando Quango,
F. McDonald,
Slave,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warren Ellis,
Pagans,
Nirvana,
The Neon Judgement,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Make Up,
Wire,
Soft Machine,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Aural Exciters,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.