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 Peru and from Spokane.
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 London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the dance 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Cymande,
Cluster,
Connie Case,
The Cure,
Nirvana,
Johnny Clarke,
Andrew Hill,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yellowson,
Derrick Morgan,
Schoolly D,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moss Icon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Doors,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Isaac Hayes,
Siglo XX,
New Order,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang Green,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cal Tjader,
Eric B and Rakim,
Amon Düül II,
Jawbox,
Y Pants,
Brothers Johnson,
Motorama,
The Slackers,
The Martian,
Mantronix,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fall,
Fela Kuti,
a-ha,
Underground Resistance,
The Busters,
DJ Sneak,
Al Stewart,
Sällskapet,
Jacques Brel,
Soul II Soul,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mummies,
The Victims,
Quadrant,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bang On A Can,
Minnie Riperton,
Nik Kershaw,
The Black Dice,
Don Cherry,
Skaos,
Monks,
James White and The Blacks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Interpol,
Hoover,
Brass Construction,
The Remains,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.