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 Djibouti and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in 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 Jesper Dahlback to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Suicide,
The Durutti Column,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
The Moody Blues,
Model 500,
Metal Thangz,
Todd Terry,
The Gladiators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Loose Ends,
The Moleskins,
Massinfluence,
Clear Light,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Fortunes,
Das Ding,
Matthew Halsall,
Archie Shepp,
Ossler,
The Smoke,
Bauhaus,
The Techniques,
Bush Tetras,
Saccharine Trust,
Max Romeo,
Dave Gahan,
the Sonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
This Heat,
Sarah Menescal,
Nirvana,
the Swans,
Susan Cadogan,
Brass Construction,
the Germs,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Standells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Zeros,
One Last Wish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pulsallama,
Outsiders,
the Bar-Kays,
Kaleidoscope,
Hashim,
Eddi Front,
Minutemen,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roy Ayers,
The Angels of Light,
Soft Cell,
New Age Steppers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Aural Exciters,
Harmonia,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.