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 Malaysia and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 John Foxx to the jazz 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Derrick May,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Interpol,
Dark Day,
Flash Fearless,
The Tremeloes,
Amon Düül,
Hashim,
The Gladiators,
Junior Murvin,
Radiohead,
The New Christs,
Talk Talk,
Funkadelic,
EPMD,
Althea and Donna,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
China Crisis,
Eric Dolphy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cluster,
The American Breed,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minny Pops,
Main Source,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Heaven 17,
Pussy Galore,
John Holt,
Bob Dylan,
Wally Richardson,
The Moleskins,
The Golliwogs,
Steve Hackett,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Drexciya,
Byron Stingily,
Scott Walker,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultravox,
Hasil Adkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Henry Cow,
Eve St. Jones,
Matthew Bourne,
10cc,
Pulsallama,
The Smoke,
Negative Approach,
Vladislav Delay,
Archie Shepp,
Black Flag,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.