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 Gabon and from Halifax.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deepchord to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Robert Wyatt,
Anakelly,
ABC,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cure,
The Divine Comedy,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
Guru Guru,
Dave Gahan,
The Busters,
The Seeds,
John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tropical Tobacco,
Saccharine Trust,
Throbbing Gristle,
Minutemen,
Mission of Burma,
Desert Stars,
Soft Machine,
Yusef Lateef,
Soulsonic Force,
Ituana,
The Dead C,
Shuggie Otis,
Reuben Wilson,
the Soft Cell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kurtis Blow,
Matthew Halsall,
Kenny Larkin,
Popol Vuh,
Camouflage,
The Doobie Brothers,
Young Marble Giants,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Von Mondo,
Rod Modell,
Jandek,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kas Product,
The Names,
The Shadows of Knight,
Quando Quango,
The Fugs,
DJ Style,
The Neon Judgement,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Blake Baxter,
Section 25,
Bad Manners,
Television,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Erasure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Victims,
Blancmange,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.