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 Namibia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
New Age Steppers,
The Fortunes,
Derrick Morgan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Bluetip,
David McCallum,
Talk Talk,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shuggie Otis,
Nico,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Red Krayola,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delta 5,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kurtis Blow,
The Buckinghams,
Agitation Free,
The Pretty Things,
Mantronix,
Warsaw,
Television,
CMW,
Joey Negro,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Livin' Joy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Basic Channel,
Thee Headcoats,
Outsiders,
Ken Boothe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MC5,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
Roxette,
Skaos,
Soul Sonic Force,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Suicide,
Zero Boys,
Q65,
Bill Near,
Monks,
Deadbeat,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Vainqueur,
Kas Product,
Slave,
the Human League,
Alphaville,
Spoonie Gee,
Can,
Scrapy,
David Axelrod,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.