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 Bolivia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Buzzcocks to the grime 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 Mills. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The J.B.'s,
Arab on Radar,
Groovy Waters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Oneida,
Eric Dolphy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Colin Newman,
Camouflage,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rotary Connection,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roger Hodgson,
R.M.O.,
Procol Harum,
Harmonia,
Absolute Body Control,
Spandau Ballet,
Pantytec,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
cv313,
The Cure,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Smiths,
Cheater Slicks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minor Threat,
Zero Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Charles Mingus,
Byron Stingily,
Smog,
Heaven 17,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Cale,
KRS-One,
Young Marble Giants,
Mad Mike,
Iggy Pop,
Unrelated Segments,
Reuben Wilson,
Henry Cow,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter & Gordon,
Fad Gadget,
Godley & Creme,
Maleditus Sound,
Pylon,
Sight & Sound,
Minny Pops,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tears for Fears,
Alphaville,
Roxette,
Nico,
The Blues Magoos,
Albert Ayler,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Hood,
The Dirtbombs,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.