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 Jamaica and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 Tommy Roe to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec 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?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ohio Players,
The Fall,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Dirtbombs,
Model 500,
Anthony Braxton,
The Invisible,
Talk Talk,
David Axelrod,
Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Rosa Yemen,
The Fuzztones,
The Sonics,
The Pop Group,
Amon Düül,
Man Parrish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Basic Channel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Inner City,
Ludus,
Robert Hood,
Ice-T,
X-102,
Theoretical Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marmalade,
Gang Gang Dance,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fire Engines,
The Cowsills,
Mary Jane Girls,
Slave,
Cymande,
Little Man,
X-101,
Warren Ellis,
Lakeside,
Unrelated Segments,
Heaven 17,
This Heat,
Mo-Dettes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Zeros,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Moss Icon,
Skaos,
The Angels of Light,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Standells,
Pole,
David Bowie,
A Certain Ratio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skriet,
Judy Mowatt,
Jeru the Damaja,
Excepter,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.