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 United Kingdom and from Accra.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Robert Görl to the jazz 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
the Association,
Sun City Girls,
The Selecter,
Average White Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Cymande,
Dave Gahan,
Quando Quango,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Absolute Body Control,
New Age Steppers,
Johnny Clarke,
Hot Snakes,
PIL,
Joy Division,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fluxion,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scientists,
Radiohead,
Kas Product,
Bang On A Can,
Aswad,
Boredoms,
Ludus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Procol Harum,
Harry Pussy,
Banda Bassotti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hasil Adkins,
Black Sheep,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Smoke,
Brick,
F. McDonald,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Anthony Braxton,
DJ Sneak,
Roger Hodgson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nation of Ulysses,
Youth Brigade,
Donald Byrd,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Archie Shepp,
Barry Ungar,
The Monochrome Set,
Mo-Dettes,
Ohio Players,
The Birthday Party,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Interpol,
The Mummies,
The Searchers,
Kenny Larkin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Essential Logic,
Lucky Dragons,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.