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 Nigeria and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the punk 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Janne Schatter,
Amon Düül II,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gang of Four,
The Pop Group,
Marine Girls,
Slave,
Hoover,
Connie Case,
The Walker Brothers,
the Normal,
Arab on Radar,
Yusef Lateef,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rotary Connection,
June Days,
The Busters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Deadbeat,
Scientists,
Crooked Eye,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Durutti Column,
Derrick Morgan,
Sällskapet,
The Black Dice,
Underground Resistance,
The Doors,
Alton Ellis,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MDC,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
One Last Wish,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mars,
H. Thieme,
Man Parrish,
Scott Walker,
Marcia Griffiths,
Japan,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Maurizio,
Babytalk,
Erykah Badu,
The Smiths,
The Toasters,
Urselle,
Soul Sonic Force,
Archie Shepp,
Mission of Burma,
Visage,
Max Romeo,
Cheater Slicks,
The Blues Magoos,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.