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 Italy and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Robert Hood to the grime 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Archie Shepp,
Dennis Brown,
Arab on Radar,
Lightning Bolt,
Average White Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Monks,
Rapeman,
Negative Approach,
Maurizio,
Schoolly D,
Fad Gadget,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gang Starr,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Colin Newman,
Sun City Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Human League,
Crime,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Howard Jones,
The Gap Band,
Camberwell Now,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Walker Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roxette,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Electric Prunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swell Maps,
Malaria!,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fire Engines,
Wally Richardson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harmonia,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Offenders,
Gong,
The Fugs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
John Lydon,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Evens,
Heaven 17,
Oblivians,
Tim Buckley,
the Germs,
Alton Ellis,
Grey Daturas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Count Five,
Agitation Free,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.