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 Chad and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the 808 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 The Grass Roots to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Malaria!,
These Immortal Souls,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Mills,
Animal Collective,
Bad Manners,
Rhythm & Sound,
Neu!,
Gabor Szabo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terrestrial Tones,
The New Christs,
Television Personalities,
Bob Dylan,
DJ Style,
X-101,
the Association,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Byrd,
Letta Mbulu,
Kayak,
Moebius,
Bang On A Can,
Pere Ubu,
Ken Boothe,
Schoolly D,
The Selecter,
Dual Sessions,
Sun City Girls,
The American Breed,
PIL,
Jawbox,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott Heron,
Yaz,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Womack,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Echospace,
Accadde A,
The Young Rascals,
Black Bananas,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Birthday Party,
The Gap Band,
B.T. Express,
Patti Smith,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ten City,
Fluxion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Maurizio,
Mo-Dettes,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.