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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Silicon Teens to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Hardrive,
Barry Ungar,
Arcadia,
Iggy Pop,
ABC,
Rotary Connection,
Gabor Szabo,
Ludus,
The Moleskins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Pop Group,
Dark Day,
Tommy Roe,
Brass Construction,
Bad Manners,
Graham Central Station,
Oneida,
Albert Ayler,
Alice Coltrane,
Nation of Ulysses,
Yaz,
Gong,
The Shadows of Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
Tom Boy,
Pulsallama,
Lalann,
The Monochrome Set,
L. Decosne,
Peter and Kerry,
Stereo Dub,
Ken Boothe,
Black Bananas,
LL Cool J,
Bronski Beat,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Neon Judgement,
Pharoah Sanders,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Quando Quango,
Harry Pussy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sight & Sound,
Fluxion,
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Juan Atkins,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
The Grass Roots,
Piero Umiliani,
Agent Orange,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.