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 Italy and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Rotary Connection to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MC5,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soft Cell,
Ken Boothe,
Ultimate Spinach,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
The Move,
Eric Dolphy,
The J.B.'s,
Wally Richardson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lyres,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nico,
UT,
Alphaville,
The Electric Prunes,
Blancmange,
Adolescents,
Depeche Mode,
Franke,
AZ,
Delta 5,
Roger Hodgson,
Connie Case,
Newcleus,
Boredoms,
Amazonics,
Mark Hollis,
Oblivians,
Susan Cadogan,
Joyce Sims,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Mantronix,
The Human League,
Theoretical Girls,
Camberwell Now,
James White and The Blacks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Anakelly,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Robert Wyatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pantytec,
Scrapy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ten City,
The Fall,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soulsonic Force,
Banda Bassotti,
the Slits,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.