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 Czech Republic and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Harmonia to the electroclash 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric Dolphy,
Half Japanese,
Byron Stingily,
Sex Pistols,
Althea and Donna,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grandmaster Flash,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shuggie Otis,
Joensuu 1685,
The United States of America,
In Retrospect,
Amon Düül,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Leaves,
FM Einheit,
Warren Ellis,
The Gladiators,
Drexciya,
The Techniques,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Barrington Levy,
Flipper,
Pylon,
Joe Smooth,
Donald Byrd,
Fear,
Cecil Taylor,
The Velvet Underground,
Tomorrow,
Malaria!,
Idris Muhammad,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Public Enemy,
Angry Samoans,
Sonic Youth,
Harpers Bizarre,
Smog,
The Associates,
Amon Düül II,
Make Up,
Chris & Cosey,
Moby Grape,
The Smiths,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Audionom,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Blackbyrds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Funkadelic,
Alison Limerick,
Johnny Clarke,
Sandy B,
Laurel Aitken,
Unrelated Segments,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.