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 India and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the rap 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Albert Ayler,
Motorama,
Grauzone,
Main Source,
Drexciya,
Ludus,
June Days,
Fluxion,
Technova,
Tomorrow,
Vainqueur,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
OOIOO,
Marcia Griffiths,
Danielle Patucci,
Fela Kuti,
Godley & Creme,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cure,
Chris & Cosey,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Average White Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nation of Ulysses,
Unrelated Segments,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Anakelly,
Skaos,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
E-Dancer,
Pantytec,
Michelle Simonal,
Erasure,
Amon Düül II,
Pere Ubu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rites of Spring,
Alphaville,
Japan,
John Coltrane,
ABC,
The Fugs,
Audionom,
Wire,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Television,
Intrusion,
Qualms,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Whodini,
Flash Fearless,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Almond,
Anthony Braxton,
Hoover,
Hashim,
Heaven 17,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.