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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Lagos and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Lou Reed to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter & Gordon,
Erykah Badu,
Babytalk,
The Mojo Men,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ralphi Rosario,
Soulsonic Force,
48th St. Collective,
KRS-One,
Neu!,
The Gladiators,
Glenn Branca,
Theoretical Girls,
Fad Gadget,
Deakin,
Basic Channel,
Shuggie Otis,
Stetsasonic,
Ten City,
Rites of Spring,
Reuben Wilson,
Tommy Roe,
Aswad,
Bob Dylan,
Au Pairs,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Victims,
The Litter,
Boogie Down Productions,
Audionom,
Colin Newman,
DJ Style,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
U.S. Maple,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crime,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Angry Samoans,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Sound Behaviour,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Darondo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bluetip,
The Raincoats,
Marcia Griffiths,
Junior Murvin,
Cecil Taylor,
Steve Hackett,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young,
Organ,
The Cowsills,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.