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 Israel and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 One Last Wish to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
Big Daddy Kane,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mantronix,
Vladislav Delay,
Mandrill,
Jerry's Kids,
Quando Quango,
David McCallum,
Brand Nubian,
Stereo Dub,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABBA,
Moss Icon,
Avey Tare,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Albert Ayler,
Pagans,
Gichy Dan,
Absolute Body Control,
The Tremeloes,
The Seeds,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stetsasonic,
Groovy Waters,
The Durutti Column,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Order,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Essential Logic,
Peter and Kerry,
ABC,
Eddi Front,
Scrapy,
The United States of America,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Womack,
Banda Bassotti,
The Real Kids,
The Smoke,
The Fall,
New York Dolls,
Television,
Erykah Badu,
Yellowson,
Eden Ahbez,
Symarip,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Black Dice,
Faust,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
Popol Vuh,
Yusef Lateef,
Country Teasers,
These Immortal Souls,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.