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 Bhutan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Clear Light to the rap 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Guru Guru,
Gabor Szabo,
Josef K,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
PIL,
Average White Band,
Groovy Waters,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moody Blues,
Monolake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
Pole,
Tubeway Army,
Eve St. Jones,
The Vogues,
Joey Negro,
Fatback Band,
Oblivians,
Icehouse,
Ponytail,
Joyce Sims,
The Busters,
Matthew Bourne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cal Tjader,
Eurythmics,
The Tremeloes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Vladislav Delay,
The Star Department,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warren Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
The Golliwogs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gladiators,
Von Mondo,
Lalann,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Patti Smith,
Graham Central Station,
Joy Division,
Excepter,
Simply Red,
Goldenarms,
Barry Ungar,
Skarface,
Kayak,
Scott Walker,
Basic Channel,
Pagans,
X-101,
ABC,
Malaria!,
The Five Americans,
Porter Ricks,
Fluxion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.