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 Iceland and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
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 Tom Verlaine 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 Mr. Review to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Invisible,
Chris & Cosey,
Rekid,
Television Personalities,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kaleidoscope,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Althea and Donna,
Godley & Creme,
Pere Ubu,
Mission of Burma,
Sly & The Family Stone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Television,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Human League,
ABBA,
The Cramps,
Matthew Halsall,
Alison Limerick,
Zapp,
Hashim,
The United States of America,
The Doors,
Make Up,
Jawbox,
Michelle Simonal,
Bob Dylan,
Dual Sessions,
Yusef Lateef,
Marc Almond,
Unwound,
Bush Tetras,
Vladislav Delay,
Patti Smith,
Q and Not U,
cv313,
Technova,
The Happenings,
Scan 7,
Masters at Work,
Black Moon,
Ludus,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MC5,
Gang Green,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Smoke,
Scratch Acid,
Traffic Nightmare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
Section 25,
Thompson Twins,
Dawn Penn,
The Cure,
Second Layer,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.