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 Bahamas and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
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 chamberlin 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Derrick May,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cramps,
Sun Ra,
Delta 5,
Pylon,
Lou Christie,
Section 25,
The Buckinghams,
Swell Maps,
T.S.O.L.,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dennis Brown,
Eve St. Jones,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Mo-Dettes,
Sound Behaviour,
Cymande,
The Birthday Party,
Circle Jerks,
The Red Krayola,
Sugar Minott,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
Dave Gahan,
Scrapy,
Livin' Joy,
The Wake,
10cc,
Patti Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Young Rascals,
Deadbeat,
Youth Brigade,
The Last Poets,
Angry Samoans,
LL Cool J,
The Slackers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Wells,
Robert Hood,
Lakeside,
Quando Quango,
Jeff Lynne,
The Divine Comedy,
The Barracudas,
Urselle,
Accadde A,
Rapeman,
Reuben Wilson,
The Kinks,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Victims,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.