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 Uruguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Laurel Aitken to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Los Fastidios,
The Skatalites,
Rapeman,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blackbyrds,
Deakin,
Crash Course in Science,
Motorama,
The Gap Band,
Bang On A Can,
Slave,
The Seeds,
Moss Icon,
Outsiders,
David Axelrod,
Stetsasonic,
Pylon,
The Associates,
Rufus Thomas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
John Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
Black Moon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Sheep,
Alice Coltrane,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fela Kuti,
Bad Manners,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Unrelated Segments,
Brass Construction,
48th St. Collective,
the Association,
Judy Mowatt,
Tears for Fears,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lakeside,
E-Dancer,
La Düsseldorf,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Parry Music,
Black Flag,
Section 25,
Sällskapet,
Zapp,
Jacob Miller,
Albert Ayler,
Pantaleimon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sun Ra,
Maleditus Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Lower 48,
The Barracudas,
Aloha Tigers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grey Daturas,
Urselle,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.