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 Indonesia and from London.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Agitation Free to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
The Gap Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jacob Miller,
Japan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
MDC,
Television Personalities,
The Fall,
a-ha,
Brothers Johnson,
Suicide,
Robert Hood,
Rotary Connection,
Arab on Radar,
The Raincoats,
Negative Approach,
Shuggie Otis,
The Move,
ABC,
Man Parrish,
The Seeds,
Simply Red,
Cal Tjader,
Chrome,
Trumans Water,
Y Pants,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eve St. Jones,
The United States of America,
Sam Rivers,
Michelle Simonal,
Hardrive,
Camberwell Now,
the Bar-Kays,
Reagan Youth,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Monochrome Set,
The Offenders,
Lakeside,
Gang Starr,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Zeros,
The Saints,
K-Klass,
Subhumans,
Black Moon,
Mandrill,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Infiniti,
Q and Not U,
Pantaleimon,
Vladislav Delay,
Visage,
Pulsallama,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Sheep,
Easy Going,
Franke,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.