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 Eritrea and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the punk 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Camouflage,
Rosa Yemen,
KRS-One,
Dave Gahan,
The Fuzztones,
K-Klass,
ABBA,
The Fire Engines,
The Gladiators,
Lucky Dragons,
The United States of America,
a-ha,
The Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The New Christs,
Moby Grape,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tres Demented,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gories,
Model 500,
Ten City,
Delta 5,
Kool Moe Dee,
Roxy Music,
Suburban Knight,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Residents,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Television,
Inner City,
Jacques Brel,
Excepter,
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Dirtbombs,
Jerry's Kids,
Ossler,
Television Personalities,
Minny Pops,
The Sound,
AZ,
The Associates,
Sound Behaviour,
The Trojans,
Pussy Galore,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Evens,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Surgeon,
Wasted Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Eli Mardock,
Alton Ellis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hardrive,
Pagans,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.