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 Dominican Republic and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the techno 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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Prince Buster,
Arcadia,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Standells,
Nik Kershaw,
Depeche Mode,
The Pretty Things,
Liliput,
Danielle Patucci,
The Wake,
Bang On A Can,
Duran Duran,
Rotary Connection,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
K-Klass,
Matthew Bourne,
Sixth Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
David Bowie,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visage,
Rapeman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marine Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Laurel Aitken,
June Days,
Echospace,
The Cure,
Johnny Clarke,
The Blues Magoos,
This Heat,
Grauzone,
The Invisible,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wings,
Eden Ahbez,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joy Division,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jeff Mills,
The Stooges,
Urselle,
Kurtis Blow,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Residents,
The Saints,
Junior Murvin,
Gang of Four,
The Blackbyrds,
Spandau Ballet,
The Five Americans,
The Searchers,
Unrelated Segments,
Stereo Dub,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.