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 Malta and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Chris & Cosey to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun City Girls,
Vainqueur,
Oblivians,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lou Reed,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Index,
The Moleskins,
Ponytail,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flamin' Groovies,
Banda Bassotti,
The Pop Group,
The Star Department,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Agitation Free,
Johnny Clarke,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ossler,
Von Mondo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fugs,
Dawn Penn,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pulsallama,
Swans,
Monks,
Surgeon,
Tom Boy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
ABBA,
The Moody Blues,
Deakin,
Minutemen,
U.S. Maple,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Finger,
The Seeds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
New York Dolls,
The Real Kids,
Panda Bear,
Royal Trux,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Offenders,
Second Layer,
Sexual Harrassment,
Negative Approach,
Symarip,
Index,
Ultravox,
Jacques Brel,
Brick,
Mark Hollis,
Avey Tare,
K-Klass,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.