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 Guyana and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Magazine to the punk 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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Swell Maps,
Brothers Johnson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Seeds,
David Axelrod,
Massinfluence,
Jacques Brel,
Silicon Teens,
The American Breed,
Livin' Joy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Brick,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Divine Comedy,
DJ Style,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun City Girls,
Pantaleimon,
ABC,
The Blackbyrds,
Gong,
Danielle Patucci,
the Slits,
Ludus,
The Monochrome Set,
Liliput,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Half Japanese,
EPMD,
The Residents,
Visage,
Faraquet,
Joy Division,
Blake Baxter,
Mr. Review,
Newcleus,
Youth Brigade,
Neil Young,
Television,
Fatback Band,
Skriet,
Soul II Soul,
The Gap Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Underground Resistance,
Funkadelic,
Grey Daturas,
OOIOO,
Eric Copeland,
Easy Going,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mummies,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.