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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba 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 Flash Fearless to the jazz 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Little Man,
Henry Cow,
R.M.O.,
Lou Reed,
Wings,
La Düsseldorf,
Alison Limerick,
Theoretical Girls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Youth Brigade,
Arcadia,
Peter and Kerry,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris Corsano,
Essential Logic,
Minutemen,
Siglo XX,
L. Decosne,
Susan Cadogan,
One Last Wish,
The Remains,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Buckinghams,
The Walker Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
The Selecter,
Rod Modell,
10cc,
DJ Style,
Ken Boothe,
The Birthday Party,
Heaven 17,
Soft Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Connie Case,
Carl Craig,
Nico,
Idris Muhammad,
Model 500,
The Count Five,
Stetsasonic,
Lalann,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mary Jane Girls,
Q65,
The Raincoats,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronan,
Johnny Clarke,
Cameo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sister Nancy,
Neu!,
Pussy Galore,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.