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 Finland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sexual Harrassment to the crunk 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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marine Girls,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Average White Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brass Construction,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Television Personalities,
Aloha Tigers,
The Slackers,
Freddie Wadling,
The Martian,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Smog,
Stockholm Monsters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sight & Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
10cc,
Sister Nancy,
The Fortunes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pagans,
Erykah Badu,
Todd Terry,
Suburban Knight,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dead Boys,
Chrome,
Ronnie Foster,
The Searchers,
Sun City Girls,
UT,
The Dirtbombs,
Con Funk Shun,
Derrick May,
Scan 7,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Angels of Light,
The Associates,
Sex Pistols,
Can,
Crash Course in Science,
Judy Mowatt,
kango's stein massive,
Ultravox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scrapy,
K-Klass,
Vladislav Delay,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Warsaw,
Piero Umiliani,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.