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 Guyana and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer 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 Fugazi to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
The Moody Blues,
The Zeros,
Nick Fraelich,
Laurel Aitken,
Lyres,
Supertramp,
Ronan,
Sight & Sound,
The Index,
Kenny Larkin,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Young Rascals,
Soul II Soul,
OOIOO,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Icehouse,
Connie Case,
Toni Rubio,
Iggy Pop,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultravox,
10cc,
Patti Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Count Five,
The Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
CMW,
Slave,
Sparks,
Liliput,
Boredoms,
Scrapy,
Fugazi,
Aloha Tigers,
Steve Hackett,
The Star Department,
Shuggie Otis,
DJ Style,
Ossler,
Brick,
Alton Ellis,
The Grass Roots,
Aswad,
Eric Copeland,
Nirvana,
The Techniques,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Banda Bassotti,
Marc Almond,
Groovy Waters,
Tears for Fears,
Barbara Tucker,
Bob Dylan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pylon,
Bauhaus,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.