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 Vietnam and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Susan Cadogan to the grime 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Youth Brigade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Kinks,
The Modern Lovers,
Harmonia,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Birthday Party,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gichy Dan,
John Coltrane,
The Real Kids,
The Fugs,
Fatback Band,
Theoretical Girls,
the Association,
Interpol,
Slave,
Underground Resistance,
Lower 48,
Lou Reed,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Hood,
The Invisible,
Can,
Bush Tetras,
The Residents,
cv313,
Mo-Dettes,
Inner City,
Anakelly,
World's Most,
Roxy Music,
Mission of Burma,
Quando Quango,
Bobby Byrd,
Unrelated Segments,
The Count Five,
Janne Schatter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tomorrow,
Au Pairs,
The Vogues,
Jandek,
The Alarm Clocks,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hoover,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Procol Harum,
Bang On A Can,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ten City,
Mandrill,
Chris Corsano,
Marvin Gaye,
The Mummies,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.