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 Latvia and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Matthew Bourne to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
AZ,
Quantec,
The Blues Magoos,
Duran Duran,
Nick Fraelich,
Freddie Wadling,
Unwound,
Toni Rubio,
The Residents,
Ultimate Spinach,
cv313,
Adolescents,
the Association,
Sugar Minott,
Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
The Fall,
The Zeros,
Ituana,
Swell Maps,
Warren Ellis,
Pylon,
David Axelrod,
Desert Stars,
X-Ray Spex,
Marine Girls,
One Last Wish,
Henry Cow,
Donny Hathaway,
Y Pants,
Infiniti,
Pantytec,
Rites of Spring,
Lalo Schifrin,
Japan,
Marvin Gaye,
Thompson Twins,
David McCallum,
Althea and Donna,
Sound Behaviour,
Absolute Body Control,
Glenn Branca,
Rapeman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fluxion,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Davy DMX,
The Buckinghams,
The Grass Roots,
Black Sheep,
The Skatalites,
Bauhaus,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
Scratch Acid,
Electric Prunes,
Ralphi Rosario,
James White and The Blacks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.