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 Luxembourg and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Neil Young,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Blackbyrds,
a-ha,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
48th St. Collective,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minutemen,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Beau Brummels,
The Martian,
The Human League,
Chrome,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roxette,
Grey Daturas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Enemy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tom Boy,
Hasil Adkins,
Stetsasonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Junior Murvin,
Stereo Dub,
UT,
Ornette Coleman,
Scientists,
X-102,
Cybotron,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cluster,
Jimmy McGriff,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Motions,
Shoche,
Nico,
FM Einheit,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Pretty Things,
Fat Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
John Holt,
The Divine Comedy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bauhaus,
Scion,
The Barracudas,
Minnie Riperton,
The Alarm Clocks,
Drexciya,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.