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 Germany and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
The United States of America,
Derrick May,
Gong,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Moleskins,
Peter & Gordon,
The Victims,
Procol Harum,
The Gun Club,
The Gap Band,
The Motions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Avey Tare,
Moby Grape,
Average White Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Eric Dolphy,
Whodini,
The Durutti Column,
Cluster,
Fear,
Charles Mingus,
The Index,
Icehouse,
Faraquet,
kango's stein massive,
Tommy Roe,
The Skatalites,
Anthony Braxton,
Rufus Thomas,
Vainqueur,
Minny Pops,
Negative Approach,
Easy Going,
The Leaves,
The Busters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Skaos,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ronan,
Rites of Spring,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sugar Minott,
Kaleidoscope,
Pole,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Offenders,
Television,
The Doobie Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Fela Kuti,
The Walker Brothers,
CMW,
The Kinks,
Joe Finger,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.