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 Pakistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe 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 Minny Pops to the grime 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities,
Scan 7,
Sun City Girls,
Wire,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Vogues,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Colin Newman,
Minnie Riperton,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hoover,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maleditus Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
Robert Wyatt,
Arthur Verocai,
Ossler,
The Standells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
T. Rex,
Metal Thangz,
Faraquet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Circle Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scientists,
Tubeway Army,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Selecter,
The Wake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cameo,
Harry Pussy,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
10cc,
Roxette,
a-ha,
Barrington Levy,
Rotary Connection,
Sun Ra,
Johnny Clarke,
Chris & Cosey,
Skarface,
Lower 48,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül II,
Sarah Menescal,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Monolake,
PIL,
Blake Baxter,
Slick Rick,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flash Fearless,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Depeche Mode,
Nik Kershaw,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.