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 Croatia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan 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 sitar 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 Alton Ellis to the electroclash 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Television,
Fat Boys,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DJ Style,
Young Marble Giants,
Janne Schatter,
Bush Tetras,
Porter Ricks,
Wally Richardson,
Niagra,
The Human League,
Rotary Connection,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drexciya,
Soulsonic Force,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Todd Terry,
John Holt,
Andrew Hill,
Livin' Joy,
Michelle Simonal,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Happenings,
Pagans,
The Birthday Party,
Sixth Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Altered Images,
The Five Americans,
Anthony Braxton,
Cecil Taylor,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Warsaw,
Zero Boys,
Unwound,
Jacques Brel,
Model 500,
K-Klass,
Make Up,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Warren Ellis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Joyce Sims,
Radiopuhelimet,
X-102,
Ornette Coleman,
The Walker Brothers,
D'Angelo,
The Smiths,
Arthur Verocai,
World's Most,
Traffic Nightmare,
Darondo,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.