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 Poland and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deakin to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
The Black Dice,
David McCallum,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mantronix,
Gabor Szabo,
the Association,
Gong,
Howard Jones,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Q65,
Spoonie Gee,
Shuggie Otis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Moody Blues,
The Fugs,
Au Pairs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eurythmics,
JFA,
Quando Quango,
DNA,
Stereo Dub,
Bill Wells,
The Doors,
The Dave Clark Five,
Johnny Clarke,
Sun Ra,
Susan Cadogan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ronnie Foster,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Mummies,
Maurizio,
Blake Baxter,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
Maleditus Sound,
Rod Modell,
China Crisis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Busters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bootsy Collins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
L. Decosne,
Nation of Ulysses,
Avey Tare,
The Offenders,
Vainqueur,
Minny Pops,
Section 25,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
H. Thieme,
Max Romeo,
Panda Bear,
John Lydon,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.