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 Sierra Leone and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Arcadia to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Half Japanese,
Barry Ungar,
The Five Americans,
Inner City,
Procol Harum,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pere Ubu,
Dorothy Ashby,
Clear Light,
Bizarre Inc.,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Slick Rick,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Gun Club,
Sonic Youth,
Gong,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Wake,
Lou Christie,
Bill Near,
DNA,
Average White Band,
UT,
Chris & Cosey,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Hood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Negative Approach,
China Crisis,
Joyce Sims,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
CMW,
Vladislav Delay,
It's A Beautiful Day,
World's Most,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skaos,
Nation of Ulysses,
Magma,
Tommy Roe,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pretty Things,
Pole,
Scan 7,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Red Krayola,
Marc Almond,
Kevin Saunderson,
Oneida,
the Human League,
The Toasters,
Echospace,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.