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 Mozambique and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Whodini to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Gong,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Liliput,
Excepter,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Grauzone,
The Real Kids,
The Gun Club,
Boz Scaggs,
Pierre Henry,
Anthony Braxton,
Tropical Tobacco,
Traffic Nightmare,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lakeside,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lyres,
The Sonics,
Scratch Acid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Hot Snakes,
Monolake,
Sound Behaviour,
Altered Images,
Barbara Tucker,
Pere Ubu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Last Poets,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Television Personalities,
Skaos,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fugazi,
Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moss Icon,
Popol Vuh,
Chris Corsano,
OOIOO,
Erasure,
The Fortunes,
Sonic Youth,
Masters at Work,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Franke,
Infiniti,
John Cale,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Swans,
Eli Mardock,
Von Mondo,
Amazonics,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.