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 Ghana and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Durutti Column to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Massinfluence,
Jeru the Damaja,
Skarface,
Freddie Wadling,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
JFA,
X-102,
The Smiths,
Vainqueur,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scrapy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harmonia,
Visage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Association,
Kayak,
Vladislav Delay,
DJ Sneak,
John Holt,
The Electric Prunes,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra,
The Selecter,
Tomorrow,
The Sonics,
The Evens,
the Slits,
Lee Hazlewood,
H. Thieme,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deepchord,
Drexciya,
The Durutti Column,
Agent Orange,
Intrusion,
Main Source,
Marine Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Tommy Roe,
The Beau Brummels,
Yusef Lateef,
Cal Tjader,
Black Bananas,
Ten City,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
cv313,
Robert Hood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camouflage,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Piero Umiliani,
Barry Ungar,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crash Course in Science,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Machine,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.