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 Mozambique and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the grunge 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Andrew Hill,
Vladislav Delay,
La Düsseldorf,
Pylon,
Trumans Water,
Pierre Henry,
Lalann,
June Days,
Susan Cadogan,
Neu!,
Traffic Nightmare,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Khruangbin,
The Velvet Underground,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
John Coltrane,
Fad Gadget,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Pop Group,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wings,
Eric B and Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Happenings,
Rod Modell,
Minor Threat,
Connie Case,
Minny Pops,
8 Eyed Spy,
Funky Four + One,
The Smoke,
The Gories,
Mandrill,
Bauhaus,
The Techniques,
Yazoo,
Mars,
Matthew Halsall,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Kurtis Blow,
Jeff Mills,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Symarip,
Todd Terry,
Make Up,
The Gun Club,
The Walker Brothers,
James White and The Blacks,
Peter & Gordon,
Deadbeat,
Nas,
Johnny Clarke,
Malaria!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pulsallama,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
June of 44,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.