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 Benin and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lungfish to the techno 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Easy Going,
Letta Mbulu,
Pylon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gap Band,
Second Layer,
Skriet,
Scrapy,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Real Kids,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dirtbombs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Porter Ricks,
Zero Boys,
Magazine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cameo,
Section 25,
Thee Headcoats,
The Moleskins,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mandrill,
Dark Day,
Supertramp,
Q and Not U,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eddi Front,
Inner City,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skaos,
Spandau Ballet,
Moebius,
Amazonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Whodini,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sixth Finger,
Archie Shepp,
Schoolly D,
The Cure,
Dawn Penn,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aaron Thompson,
Pantaleimon,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Theoretical Girls,
China Crisis,
John Holt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Electric Prunes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Echospace,
The Pretty Things,
Connie Case,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.