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 Morocco and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Groovy Waters to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Max Romeo,
Moby Grape,
Essential Logic,
Steve Hackett,
Gil Scott Heron,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pop Group,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pantytec,
Franke,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roy Ayers,
Oneida,
Reagan Youth,
In Retrospect,
Nils Olav,
New Order,
Fugazi,
Underground Resistance,
The Five Americans,
Wire,
Gang Starr,
Slick Rick,
the Normal,
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
David Bowie,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Qualms,
The Buckinghams,
Whodini,
Camberwell Now,
The Fuzztones,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
K-Klass,
Swell Maps,
Black Sheep,
Pere Ubu,
Todd Rundgren,
Intrusion,
The Motions,
Thompson Twins,
Sonic Youth,
Aswad,
Todd Terry,
Section 25,
Donny Hathaway,
Technova,
JFA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Model 500,
Mandrill,
Joyce Sims,
Andrew Hill,
Neil Young,
The Moody Blues,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.