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 Comoros and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ 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 Stockholm Monsters to the punk 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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
The Gun Club,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skarface,
Bang On A Can,
Brand Nubian,
The Grass Roots,
Alton Ellis,
Reuben Wilson,
The Smiths,
Joe Finger,
The Mojo Men,
Main Source,
Ice-T,
Black Moon,
the Soft Cell,
Skriet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sonics,
PIL,
The Birthday Party,
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Barbara Tucker,
Davy DMX,
Shoche,
The Dirtbombs,
X-102,
Pantaleimon,
Groovy Waters,
Stockholm Monsters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Section 25,
Public Image Ltd.,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Hill,
The Dave Clark Five,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Moebius,
Rapeman,
Sister Nancy,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Moody Blues,
OOIOO,
Sugar Minott,
Pole,
Harmonia,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gabor Szabo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Guru Guru,
Alice Coltrane,
Lalann,
Unrelated Segments,
Visage,
Ludus,
Fugazi,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eurythmics,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.