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 Mozambique and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Anthony Braxton to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Ken Boothe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Godley & Creme,
Bad Manners,
Kayak,
The Names,
Inner City,
Groovy Waters,
Delta 5,
Skaos,
The Move,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Gregory Isaacs,
Glenn Branca,
Al Stewart,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lightning Bolt,
World's Most,
Danielle Patucci,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yellowson,
The Smiths,
Bang On A Can,
The Standells,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nico,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kerrie Biddell,
Echospace,
The Dirtbombs,
Scion,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sarah Menescal,
Tres Demented,
June of 44,
Grauzone,
Hasil Adkins,
Surgeon,
Aural Exciters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Minnie Riperton,
cv313,
Metal Thangz,
The Five Americans,
Rekid,
Dennis Brown,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marmalade,
The Walker Brothers,
Pantytec,
Saccharine Trust,
the Human League,
Magazine,
The Knickerbockers,
Aloha Tigers,
T. Rex,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.