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 Finland and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kaleidoscope to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spoonie Gee,
Godley & Creme,
Babytalk,
Eve St. Jones,
Quantec,
CMW,
Scientists,
Davy DMX,
Letta Mbulu,
the Normal,
Donald Byrd,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultravox,
The New Christs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Seeds,
Michelle Simonal,
Gabor Szabo,
Slick Rick,
Barry Ungar,
Cecil Taylor,
The Skatalites,
Chris Corsano,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yellowson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rod Modell,
The Human League,
The Fall,
Colin Newman,
Laurel Aitken,
Ice-T,
Lakeside,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Pus,
Section 25,
Piero Umiliani,
Blossom Toes,
One Last Wish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Shoche,
The Black Dice,
The Red Krayola,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Suburban Knight,
Bauhaus,
Television,
Magazine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
The Fire Engines,
Faust,
Radiohead,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Machine,
Essential Logic,
Lucky Dragons,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.