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 Fiji and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Skaos to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Laurel Aitken,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Qualms,
The Neon Judgement,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Index,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
48th St. Collective,
Can,
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barrington Levy,
The Count Five,
Graham Central Station,
The Mojo Men,
Rosa Yemen,
Bronski Beat,
Joe Finger,
Black Moon,
Stiv Bators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kerri Chandler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
The Cowsills,
The Busters,
Grauzone,
Pulsallama,
Lungfish,
Symarip,
Gang of Four,
Scan 7,
The Young Rascals,
Pierre Henry,
The Durutti Column,
Bush Tetras,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Average White Band,
Neil Young,
Letta Mbulu,
Eurythmics,
the Swans,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Wyatt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
China Crisis,
The Trojans,
Charles Mingus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marine Girls,
Harry Pussy,
Minutemen,
The Wake,
John Lydon,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.