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 Czech Republic and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Portland and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Happenings to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Von Mondo,
Susan Cadogan,
Sun City Girls,
Mandrill,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pantaleimon,
Scratch Acid,
Ornette Coleman,
Main Source,
Monks,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Busters,
Rekid,
Kurtis Blow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Boz Scaggs,
Wolf Eyes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warren Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Urselle,
Man Eating Sloth,
X-Ray Spex,
Lucky Dragons,
Ice-T,
Ponytail,
The Raincoats,
Cecil Taylor,
John Cale,
Visage,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Porter Ricks,
Archie Shepp,
The Count Five,
Unrelated Segments,
The Mighty Diamonds,
X-102,
Bronski Beat,
The Trojans,
The Wake,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dark Day,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Basic Channel,
Circle Jerks,
Howard Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vladislav Delay,
Grauzone,
Marine Girls,
cv313,
Siglo XX,
Tom Boy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
kango's stein massive,
The Dirtbombs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.