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 Australia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Scratch Acid to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Slackers,
Eden Ahbez,
Audionom,
The Neon Judgement,
Quadrant,
The Sonics,
Scientists,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Metal Thangz,
Nils Olav,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fear,
Barbara Tucker,
Erykah Badu,
Davy DMX,
Robert Görl,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Matthew Halsall,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Coltrane,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Sherman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Curtis Mayfield,
Symarip,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mad Mike,
Ultra Naté,
Albert Ayler,
Moss Icon,
Second Layer,
Cabaret Voltaire,
UT,
Delon & Dalcan,
Procol Harum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tom Boy,
Sister Nancy,
Malaria!,
The Cramps,
Henry Cow,
The Leaves,
Monks,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wolf Eyes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mo-Dettes,
Can,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Motions,
Joe Finger,
Deakin,
Bootsy Collins,
Arab on Radar,
Shuggie Otis,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.