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 Sudan 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gap Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a linndrum 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 organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Raincoats,
Radiopuhelimet,
Isaac Hayes,
Deakin,
Rekid,
The Wake,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed,
Radio Birdman,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
June of 44,
Dennis Brown,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ultra Naté,
Flipper,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Urselle,
Soulsonic Force,
Yazoo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Public Enemy,
Archie Shepp,
Joe Finger,
Little Man,
The Invisible,
Smog,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sun Ra,
Michelle Simonal,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fatback Band,
Depeche Mode,
Lyres,
Kurtis Blow,
The Young Rascals,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Black Bananas,
Mission of Burma,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Pus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Saccharine Trust,
Massinfluence,
Gastr Del Sol,
Quadrant,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Desert Stars,
Dawn Penn,
Dark Day,
Pylon,
Wire,
Crispian St. Peters,
New York Dolls,
Suburban Knight,
Young Marble Giants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxy Music,
Hashim,
Kaleidoscope,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.