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 East Timor and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Warren Ellis 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cramps,
The Doors,
Mars,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
This Heat,
Rakim,
The Star Department,
the Association,
Kurtis Blow,
Parry Music,
Robert Wyatt,
Babytalk,
The Fall,
The Divine Comedy,
10cc,
Juan Atkins,
Ituana,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Junior Murvin,
Ronan,
The Names,
Joyce Sims,
Anthony Braxton,
The Move,
Rapeman,
Rosa Yemen,
Can,
Minny Pops,
Audionom,
Quantec,
Bang On A Can,
Joe Finger,
The Dirtbombs,
Ice-T,
Black Moon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gun Club,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerri Chandler,
Nik Kershaw,
Brand Nubian,
Gabor Szabo,
Rotary Connection,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Yusef Lateef,
Al Stewart,
The Count Five,
Ohio Players,
Joensuu 1685,
Althea and Donna,
Massinfluence,
Organ,
Goldenarms,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DNA,
EPMD,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.