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 Uganda and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Index to the grunge 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Royal Trux,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bronski Beat,
The Knickerbockers,
The Standells,
Dawn Penn,
Delta 5,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deakin,
Vainqueur,
Mr. Review,
JFA,
The Slackers,
Monks,
Monolake,
Suburban Knight,
the Slits,
Erykah Badu,
The Doors,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Parry Music,
Television Personalities,
Joensuu 1685,
Boz Scaggs,
Subhumans,
Interpol,
Stetsasonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Popol Vuh,
Terry Callier,
48th St. Collective,
Mad Mike,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minny Pops,
Gang of Four,
The Monochrome Set,
Oneida,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lindisfarne,
Outsiders,
Joe Finger,
Crooked Eye,
The Neon Judgement,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minnie Riperton,
John Lydon,
Hot Snakes,
Cameo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Goldenarms,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dennis Brown,
Pere Ubu,
These Immortal Souls,
Ituana,
B.T. Express,
Wally Richardson,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.