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 Mali and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Hoover,
LL Cool J,
The Remains,
The Sisters of Mercy,
ABBA,
Grey Daturas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sound Behaviour,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ten City,
The Velvet Underground,
Country Teasers,
Television,
The Skatalites,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jerry's Kids,
Anthony Braxton,
Guru Guru,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The American Breed,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultimate Spinach,
Interpol,
Banda Bassotti,
Skaos,
The Knickerbockers,
Siglo XX,
10cc,
Infiniti,
Pierre Henry,
Quadrant,
Livin' Joy,
Rod Modell,
Alice Coltrane,
Alphaville,
Don Cherry,
Iggy Pop,
Dead Boys,
Dorothy Ashby,
Supertramp,
Clear Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bush Tetras,
Wasted Youth,
X-101,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sex Pistols,
Rosa Yemen,
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Crime,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mark Hollis,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.