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 Ukraine and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 organ 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 Spoonie Gee to the grime 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonic Youth,
China Crisis,
The Star Department,
Stereo Dub,
Surgeon,
Make Up,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soulsonic Force,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultravox,
Quando Quango,
Mission of Burma,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Dead C,
The Shadows of Knight,
Toni Rubio,
Brass Construction,
The Evens,
Depeche Mode,
Lucky Dragons,
Saccharine Trust,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lower 48,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eden Ahbez,
The Velvet Underground,
Outsiders,
Spandau Ballet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dennis Brown,
Wire,
Nik Kershaw,
The Seeds,
David Axelrod,
Altered Images,
ABBA,
Soul Sonic Force,
Essential Logic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eve St. Jones,
Lungfish,
Joe Finger,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Todd Terry,
The Human League,
Aaron Thompson,
Motorama,
New Age Steppers,
Metal Thangz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soul II Soul,
Kerri Chandler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.