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 Greece and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dave Clark Five to the dance 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Unwound,
Royal Trux,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dawn Penn,
Reagan Youth,
Maurizio,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Misunderstood,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Sonics,
The Flesh Eaters,
Slick Rick,
Alphaville,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Yellowson,
The Real Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
Eurythmics,
Rotary Connection,
Urselle,
Darondo,
Robert Wyatt,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Toasters,
Skaos,
The Cowsills,
EPMD,
Scott Walker,
Sonic Youth,
The Raincoats,
Black Flag,
Panda Bear,
E-Dancer,
Average White Band,
Surgeon,
Unrelated Segments,
JFA,
The Last Poets,
Marshall Jefferson,
Derrick May,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hardrive,
the Fania All-Stars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Holt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cymande,
Funky Four + One,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Davy DMX,
The Cure,
Public Image Ltd.,
A Certain Ratio,
Terry Callier,
Flipper,
The Buckinghams,
The Techniques,
Fluxion,
Nas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.