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 Malawi and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 FM Einheit 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
The Tremeloes,
Panda Bear,
Yazoo,
Jeff Lynne,
Joyce Sims,
Lucky Dragons,
Maurizio,
Albert Ayler,
The Happenings,
Erasure,
Aaron Thompson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Supertramp,
The Kinks,
The Standells,
The Music Machine,
Whodini,
Guru Guru,
U.S. Maple,
Mantronix,
The Victims,
Fat Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Style,
Pharoah Sanders,
Johnny Clarke,
Massinfluence,
Peter & Gordon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Basic Channel,
ABBA,
Sandy B,
Leonard Cohen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marine Girls,
John Foxx,
Von Mondo,
The Misunderstood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Iggy Pop,
Reagan Youth,
Surgeon,
Susan Cadogan,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
Max Romeo,
Henry Cow,
Lyres,
Kurtis Blow,
Alison Limerick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joey Negro,
Porter Ricks,
The Dirtbombs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Quantec,
The Pop Group,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thompson Twins,
Clear Light,
Mars,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.