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 Uganda and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Rundgren,
Masters at Work,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moss Icon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
Spoonie Gee,
Skaos,
The Sonics,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wolf Eyes,
Freddie Wadling,
Yaz,
The Barracudas,
Erykah Badu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
One Last Wish,
Roy Ayers,
Marine Girls,
Camberwell Now,
The Mummies,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Juan Atkins,
FM Einheit,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pussy Galore,
Television,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Liliput,
Black Sheep,
Kas Product,
Talk Talk,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Godley & Creme,
Unwound,
Wasted Youth,
Altered Images,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Lynne,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Shoche,
Bang On A Can,
Mars,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sex Pistols,
Fatback Band,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Royal Trux,
Eric B and Rakim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.