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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 Kayak to the grunge 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Monks,
Trumans Water,
The Music Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funkadelic,
Adolescents,
Schoolly D,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rites of Spring,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul II Soul,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pantytec,
Patti Smith,
The Pop Group,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sonic Youth,
Darondo,
Half Japanese,
Ken Boothe,
Parry Music,
Black Bananas,
Tubeway Army,
Lakeside,
Mark Hollis,
Roxette,
Ronan,
The Gladiators,
DNA,
Black Moon,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Stooges,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Underground Resistance,
Iggy Pop,
the Germs,
Tres Demented,
Minor Threat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Davy DMX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bauhaus,
Tropical Tobacco,
Saccharine Trust,
Rotary Connection,
Blossom Toes,
Brass Construction,
Section 25,
Johnny Clarke,
Joey Negro,
Roxy Music,
Jacques Brel,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.