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 Fiji and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Bauhaus to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
cv313,
Theoretical Girls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Loose Ends,
John Cale,
Brass Construction,
The New Christs,
Sixth Finger,
Pere Ubu,
John Lydon,
Swans,
Q65,
DJ Sneak,
The Trojans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Qualms,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Icehouse,
Grandmaster Flash,
These Immortal Souls,
Scratch Acid,
Reagan Youth,
Jandek,
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Henry Cow,
Porter Ricks,
Althea and Donna,
Prince Buster,
Eric Copeland,
the Germs,
The Pretty Things,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deakin,
Laurel Aitken,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Reed,
John Foxx,
New Age Steppers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flipper,
Stiv Bators,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Doors,
The Stooges,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wasted Youth,
Scientists,
Faust,
Connie Case,
Sun Ra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.