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 Portugal and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Underground Resistance to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
The Grass Roots,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kas Product,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deadbeat,
Derrick Morgan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Monks,
The Dirtbombs,
Sight & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
Chris Corsano,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jacques Brel,
MC5,
Yusef Lateef,
Avey Tare,
The Real Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Groovy Waters,
Bob Dylan,
John Lydon,
Hashim,
Jeff Lynne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funkadelic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joe Smooth,
John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fire Engines,
Pantaleimon,
Charles Mingus,
the Association,
Todd Rundgren,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Selecter,
Desert Stars,
Bobby Byrd,
The New Christs,
Cluster,
Thee Headcoats,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hardrive,
Subhumans,
Bronski Beat,
Section 25,
Chrome,
Matthew Halsall,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Harmonia,
Accadde A,
Slave,
Can,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.