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 Belgium and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 chamberlin 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 Spoonie Gee to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
Lower 48,
Warren Ellis,
Yellowson,
The Zeros,
Vladislav Delay,
10cc,
Wasted Youth,
Slick Rick,
Can,
The Pretty Things,
MC5,
June Days,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fela Kuti,
Erasure,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Skriet,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Barracudas,
DNA,
Livin' Joy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kerri Chandler,
Sugar Minott,
John Coltrane,
The Stooges,
Eve St. Jones,
Rotary Connection,
Pylon,
Glenn Branca,
Heaven 17,
Lalann,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eden Ahbez,
Suicide,
Parry Music,
Stockholm Monsters,
D'Angelo,
Soft Cell,
H. Thieme,
The Seeds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marvin Gaye,
The Techniques,
Flipper,
Depeche Mode,
Dual Sessions,
Sun Ra,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fat Boys,
The Detroit Cobras,
Skarface,
the Swans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jacques Brel,
Silicon Teens,
Aaron Thompson,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.