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 Liechtenstein and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 arpeggiator 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the grime 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
Intrusion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gabor Szabo,
Bang On A Can,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Talk Talk,
Boredoms,
Vainqueur,
Black Bananas,
Das Ding,
The Fuzztones,
Pere Ubu,
EPMD,
Colin Newman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chrome,
Kayak,
Chris Corsano,
The Monochrome Set,
Barry Ungar,
Soul II Soul,
Johnny Clarke,
Amon Düül II,
Stiv Bators,
Gregory Isaacs,
Interpol,
kango's stein massive,
Crime,
The Cure,
John Cale,
Black Moon,
Donny Hathaway,
Deakin,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Schoolly D,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Neon Judgement,
Grauzone,
The Standells,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Sheep,
Aural Exciters,
FM Einheit,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Young Rascals,
Sällskapet,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Big Daddy Kane,
Can,
DJ Style,
Unrelated Segments,
Wolf Eyes,
Ten City,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Electric Prunes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.