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 Sweden and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Popol Vuh to the electroclash 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joe Finger,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sixth Finger,
The Gories,
Minor Threat,
Wings,
Pantytec,
Suburban Knight,
Terry Callier,
Soul II Soul,
Joensuu 1685,
The Doors,
the Swans,
Severed Heads,
Isaac Hayes,
Kayak,
Alton Ellis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
a-ha,
Cecil Taylor,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wolf Eyes,
Delon & Dalcan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Toasters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kaleidoscope,
Faust,
Fela Kuti,
Niagra,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultra Naté,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Metal Thangz,
Yazoo,
Janne Schatter,
Boredoms,
Gang Green,
Bobby Byrd,
Davy DMX,
The Tremeloes,
Bronski Beat,
Zero Boys,
Aloha Tigers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terrestrial Tones,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sister Nancy,
Lindisfarne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.