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 Madagascar and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Black Bananas,
Janne Schatter,
Index,
Angry Samoans,
LL Cool J,
Drexciya,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mark Hollis,
The Names,
Wire,
The Barracudas,
Mantronix,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Skatalites,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Black Dice,
Anakelly,
kango's stein massive,
Lower 48,
Arab on Radar,
Tim Buckley,
Fad Gadget,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Country Teasers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Durutti Column,
Don Cherry,
Youth Brigade,
Darondo,
KRS-One,
Idris Muhammad,
The Remains,
Connie Case,
Drive Like Jehu,
Popol Vuh,
Gichy Dan,
Thee Headcoats,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
Pole,
Eddi Front,
Rotary Connection,
Stereo Dub,
Matthew Halsall,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pussy Galore,
Ultravox,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
MC5,
The Golliwogs,
Underground Resistance,
Thompson Twins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gang Green,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.