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 Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum 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 Jacob Miller to the funk 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Roy Ayers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Half Japanese,
David Axelrod,
Ralphi Rosario,
Connie Case,
MDC,
Lalann,
Liliput,
Aswad,
Silicon Teens,
Lower 48,
Mars,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Stooges,
Funkadelic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
Blake Baxter,
Dual Sessions,
the Soft Cell,
Zapp,
Ossler,
The Real Kids,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalo Schifrin,
Slick Rick,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Bang On A Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bob Dylan,
Susan Cadogan,
Dennis Brown,
Loose Ends,
The Mummies,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mantronix,
Yazoo,
Erasure,
Moby Grape,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Excepter,
Graham Central Station,
Morten Harket,
The Human League,
Rites of Spring,
Little Man,
Al Stewart,
Ultravox,
Arthur Verocai,
Lightning Bolt,
The Star Department,
Jacques Brel,
Banda Bassotti,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Beau Brummels,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.