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 Liberia and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the crunk 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Saccharine Trust,
Duran Duran,
Monks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lightning Bolt,
Man Parrish,
Janne Schatter,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Misunderstood,
Avey Tare,
Parry Music,
Harry Pussy,
Absolute Body Control,
Piero Umiliani,
The Seeds,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Agitation Free,
Simply Red,
Deakin,
Slick Rick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Brass Construction,
Pole,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Evens,
Jacob Miller,
Pagans,
Iggy Pop,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gil Scott Heron,
Leonard Cohen,
Index,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
Barry Ungar,
Stiv Bators,
L. Decosne,
Sister Nancy,
Japan,
Soft Cell,
cv313,
Terry Callier,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Trojans,
Gang Starr,
These Immortal Souls,
Kerri Chandler,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soft Machine,
Lower 48,
Sex Pistols,
Masters at Work,
Slave,
Juan Atkins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Warren Ellis,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.