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 Antigua and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes 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 Colin Newman to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Boredoms,
Alice Coltrane,
Icehouse,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Music Machine,
Nils Olav,
R.M.O.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lakeside,
KRS-One,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scientists,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Slits,
Bluetip,
Parry Music,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alton Ellis,
Loose Ends,
Guru Guru,
Youth Brigade,
Q and Not U,
The Doobie Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Tommy Roe,
Idris Muhammad,
Moss Icon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Buzzcocks,
The Busters,
Barry Ungar,
Ronnie Foster,
Bill Near,
The Human League,
Black Flag,
The Trojans,
The New Christs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Au Pairs,
The Vogues,
Japan,
Rotary Connection,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pulsallama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
China Crisis,
The Smiths,
Angry Samoans,
Junior Murvin,
The Five Americans,
One Last Wish,
Faraquet,
The Barracudas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.