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 Bulgaria and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pretty Things to the dance 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Masters at Work,
Kurtis Blow,
Wire,
L. Decosne,
Rosa Yemen,
Eve St. Jones,
Alison Limerick,
Chrome,
Banda Bassotti,
Scion,
Spandau Ballet,
The Wake,
the Sonics,
Alice Coltrane,
Babytalk,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joensuu 1685,
Fela Kuti,
Byron Stingily,
Spoonie Gee,
Monolake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The United States of America,
Black Pus,
Easy Going,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fuzztones,
the Bar-Kays,
Index,
Sandy B,
Heaven 17,
Skarface,
Pussy Galore,
LL Cool J,
Second Layer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
Flash Fearless,
Bob Dylan,
Supertramp,
The Angels of Light,
Magma,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Green,
Arcadia,
Fear,
Tears for Fears,
The Vogues,
The Doors,
The Electric Prunes,
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.