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 Seychelles and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Happenings to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Basic Channel,
EPMD,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gories,
The Litter,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Fraelich,
Amon Düül,
The Red Krayola,
The Slits,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gun Club,
Alison Limerick,
Reuben Wilson,
cv313,
Can,
Parry Music,
Shuggie Otis,
Eurythmics,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cecil Taylor,
The Birthday Party,
Stereo Dub,
Quando Quango,
Mission of Burma,
Masters at Work,
Qualms,
Dark Day,
The Moody Blues,
Gang of Four,
Lower 48,
Alice Coltrane,
Roy Ayers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ice-T,
Altered Images,
Frankie Knuckles,
Hardrive,
The Golliwogs,
Lalann,
Flipper,
Blossom Toes,
Deadbeat,
Gichy Dan,
La Düsseldorf,
Dual Sessions,
The Buckinghams,
The Monks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Country Teasers,
The Raincoats,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mars,
Inner City,
The Gap Band,
Technova,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.