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 Lebanon and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Dawn Penn to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Au Pairs,
Main Source,
The Gladiators,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Sherman,
Jacob Miller,
Scan 7,
Terry Callier,
A Certain Ratio,
The Real Kids,
Cybotron,
Soul II Soul,
Panda Bear,
Bill Near,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Neon Judgement,
H. Thieme,
Mission of Burma,
Cluster,
Aural Exciters,
Yusef Lateef,
Roxette,
The Motions,
Loose Ends,
Newcleus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scott Walker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
David McCallum,
Vladislav Delay,
8 Eyed Spy,
Y Pants,
The Associates,
Television,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Cale,
Sällskapet,
Maleditus Sound,
Gong,
Sugar Minott,
Fear,
Matthew Bourne,
CMW,
Fifty Foot Hose,
R.M.O.,
Deadbeat,
Vainqueur,
Bauhaus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kas Product,
Inner City,
Stetsasonic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Royal Trux,
Kerri Chandler,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.