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 Romania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Althea and Donna to the grime 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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slackers,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Seeds,
the Human League,
Supertramp,
Schoolly D,
Vainqueur,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Young Rascals,
Fugazi,
Big Daddy Kane,
kango's stein massive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Newcleus,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Franke,
Nirvana,
The Blackbyrds,
The Happenings,
Man Parrish,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Pop Group,
Ultra Naté,
Eric Copeland,
Magma,
The Knickerbockers,
Crime,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Axelrod,
Colin Newman,
Metal Thangz,
Y Pants,
Spandau Ballet,
Rekid,
The United States of America,
8 Eyed Spy,
Davy DMX,
Can,
Archie Shepp,
Janne Schatter,
Morten Harket,
Masters at Work,
Talk Talk,
Popol Vuh,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scratch Acid,
a-ha,
Gabor Szabo,
Blancmange,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
cv313,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Vladislav Delay,
Lucky Dragons,
Bill Wells,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.