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 Guatemala and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hardrive to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Soft Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thompson Twins,
Pole,
Parry Music,
Easy Going,
Guru Guru,
Black Bananas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Negative Approach,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Goldenarms,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fluxion,
Talk Talk,
Sixth Finger,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Flag,
Nik Kershaw,
Minny Pops,
The Red Krayola,
Average White Band,
Japan,
Eric Copeland,
The Durutti Column,
Lou Reed,
Section 25,
Boredoms,
Royal Trux,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cure,
Rapeman,
Joe Smooth,
The Cramps,
Brand Nubian,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sarah Menescal,
The Smiths,
Erasure,
Skriet,
Electric Prunes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nils Olav,
Johnny Clarke,
Monolake,
Lakeside,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Theoretical Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cybotron,
Pulsallama,
Marc Almond,
Harpers Bizarre,
Max Romeo,
Donny Hathaway,
The Slits,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jandek,
Kas Product,
Alton Ellis,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.