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 United Kingdom and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the disco 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Faust,
KRS-One,
Kevin Saunderson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Young Marble Giants,
Desert Stars,
Morten Harket,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Can,
The United States of America,
Monolake,
Barrington Levy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Surgeon,
Amazonics,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Mojo Men,
Black Bananas,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Nas,
Ludus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pierre Henry,
Toni Rubio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kaleidoscope,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eric Dolphy,
The Stooges,
Mantronix,
The Fall,
Jimmy McGriff,
AZ,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chris Corsano,
Rufus Thomas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Slave,
Theoretical Girls,
Liliput,
Sandy B,
Bauhaus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Suburban Knight,
Eli Mardock,
Matthew Bourne,
Neil Young,
Eurythmics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aswad,
Quando Quango,
The Evens,
Camberwell Now,
Alphaville,
Sugar Minott,
Television Personalities,
Mark Hollis,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.