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 Belgium and from Sao Paulo.
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 Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Colin Newman to the grime 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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brass Construction,
Piero Umiliani,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The United States of America,
cv313,
The Names,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Coltrane,
Dead Boys,
Nils Olav,
Joe Smooth,
Sister Nancy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Terrestrial Tones,
Boogie Down Productions,
The J.B.'s,
Grauzone,
Bluetip,
Kurtis Blow,
Whodini,
Bronski Beat,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
EPMD,
The Misunderstood,
CMW,
The Star Department,
Sexual Harrassment,
T.S.O.L.,
Rekid,
This Heat,
Fugazi,
Sonic Youth,
The Evens,
New Age Steppers,
Matthew Bourne,
The Move,
Moebius,
Average White Band,
Man Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Chris & Cosey,
Ituana,
X-102,
Clear Light,
Ronnie Foster,
DJ Style,
Severed Heads,
Circle Jerks,
Procol Harum,
Drexciya,
Television,
Harpers Bizarre,
Camberwell Now,
Maurizio,
Faust,
Pylon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ken Boothe,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.