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 Albania and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grey Daturas,
Buzzcocks,
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Skatalites,
Yaz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Desert Stars,
Tres Demented,
The Gun Club,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Television Personalities,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pere Ubu,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Loose Ends,
Todd Terry,
Liliput,
Khruangbin,
Parry Music,
The Victims,
The Invisible,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crash Course in Science,
Monolake,
Magma,
Cheater Slicks,
Absolute Body Control,
Davy DMX,
Bobby Sherman,
The Doors,
Gerry Rafferty,
Boogie Down Productions,
LL Cool J,
The Busters,
The Velvet Underground,
Model 500,
Grauzone,
Gang Starr,
Ossler,
Neil Young,
The Walker Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
X-Ray Spex,
Peter & Gordon,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
Bill Near,
Thompson Twins,
Agitation Free,
Drive Like Jehu,
Talk Talk,
Quadrant,
Brothers Johnson,
Organ,
Wire,
Marshall Jefferson,
Panda Bear,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.