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 Pakistan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 marimba 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 DJ Sneak to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Drive Like Jehu,
Von Mondo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Groovy Waters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
China Crisis,
Minor Threat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joyce Sims,
Reuben Wilson,
Flash Fearless,
Bush Tetras,
Dennis Brown,
Crispian St. Peters,
Henry Cow,
Chrome,
World's Most,
Maurizio,
The Victims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cameo,
Flipper,
The Sound,
the Normal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Suburban Knight,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ten City,
Monks,
Bobby Womack,
The Zeros,
Al Stewart,
Michelle Simonal,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alton Ellis,
Rekid,
Lalann,
Eric Dolphy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zero Boys,
Colin Newman,
The Monks,
The Young Rascals,
The Fortunes,
David Axelrod,
Bang On A Can,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kenny Larkin,
Panda Bear,
Cecil Taylor,
The Dirtbombs,
Khruangbin,
Saccharine Trust,
Radiohead,
The Count Five,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Alice Coltrane,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.