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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Portland.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Q65 to the grunge 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Max Romeo,
Peter & Gordon,
The Offenders,
Con Funk Shun,
Eli Mardock,
Boredoms,
Black Flag,
Y Pants,
Severed Heads,
David McCallum,
Parry Music,
Angry Samoans,
Bad Manners,
Organ,
Model 500,
Scrapy,
Minutemen,
Gong,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mandrill,
Clear Light,
Aural Exciters,
Intrusion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Faraquet,
Roxy Music,
The Real Kids,
Hasil Adkins,
Mission of Burma,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
The Moleskins,
The Associates,
The Durutti Column,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
June of 44,
Alton Ellis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Agent Orange,
Scratch Acid,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dirtbombs,
The Move,
AZ,
Franke,
Crash Course in Science,
Simply Red,
Grandmaster Flash,
JFA,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aloha Tigers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.