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 Nigeria and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Invisible to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Dave Gahan,
Minutemen,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronnie Foster,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bluetip,
Quando Quango,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Deadbeat,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Neon Judgement,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pierre Henry,
Visage,
the Sonics,
Prince Buster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Motorama,
Fear,
D'Angelo,
Parry Music,
The Knickerbockers,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
48th St. Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Darondo,
Delta 5,
Crash Course in Science,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alice Coltrane,
Supertramp,
Charles Mingus,
Groovy Waters,
Nik Kershaw,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Laurel Aitken,
Agitation Free,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jacob Miller,
KRS-One,
Rapeman,
Rufus Thomas,
One Last Wish,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cramps,
Drexciya,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dawn Penn,
Sandy B,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moby Grape,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.