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 Ghana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Gregory Isaacs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Minor Threat,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gang of Four,
Agent Orange,
Interpol,
The Dave Clark Five,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Terry,
Second Layer,
Blake Baxter,
Q65,
The Star Department,
Au Pairs,
Harmonia,
The Zeros,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Toasters,
Visage,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Max Romeo,
Fad Gadget,
Flamin' Groovies,
Royal Trux,
Public Enemy,
Buzzcocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Juan Atkins,
Sister Nancy,
X-Ray Spex,
Accadde A,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cure,
Lindisfarne,
kango's stein massive,
Duran Duran,
Slave,
Barrington Levy,
Supertramp,
Andrew Hill,
Skarface,
Liliput,
Althea and Donna,
Sparks,
Wire,
Shoche,
Bobby Womack,
Joe Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
Infiniti,
Eurythmics,
Cecil Taylor,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Livin' Joy,
Ken Boothe,
Delta 5,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.