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 Turkey 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ultra Naté to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
MC5,
Dave Gahan,
The Techniques,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dark Day,
James White and The Blacks,
Au Pairs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Invisible,
Gabor Szabo,
Easy Going,
Archie Shepp,
Graham Central Station,
The Modern Lovers,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Human League,
Aloha Tigers,
Roxette,
Jawbox,
Jacob Miller,
Barrington Levy,
Sam Rivers,
Pantytec,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cybotron,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
Erasure,
Leonard Cohen,
Roxy Music,
The Angels of Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Moebius,
Junior Murvin,
Alice Coltrane,
Fad Gadget,
Eddi Front,
10cc,
Black Flag,
The Standells,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minor Threat,
Skarface,
Ludus,
Girls At Our Best!,
Main Source,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pantaleimon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Pop Group,
Gang Green,
Slave,
D'Angelo,
Guru Guru,
Khruangbin,
Letta Mbulu,
Ituana,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.