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 Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the rap 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tears for Fears,
Q and Not U,
Scott Walker,
Wally Richardson,
the Sonics,
JFA,
Nick Fraelich,
Main Source,
Jawbox,
PIL,
Camberwell Now,
Crime,
Brick,
Nas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Saccharine Trust,
Quantec,
Chris Corsano,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marine Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Fatback Band,
Alison Limerick,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aaron Thompson,
Byron Stingily,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Archie Shepp,
Duran Duran,
Terrestrial Tones,
Davy DMX,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Divine Comedy,
Amon Düül II,
Robert Görl,
T.S.O.L.,
Organ,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
The Red Krayola,
John Lydon,
Negative Approach,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Golliwogs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Maurizio,
Marc Almond,
Eurythmics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aloha Tigers,
Colin Newman,
Iggy Pop,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.