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 Somalia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Frankie Knuckles to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
The Selecter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Litter,
Loose Ends,
Marine Girls,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers,
The Five Americans,
Hardrive,
The Blackbyrds,
The Leaves,
The Gladiators,
The Seeds,
The Kinks,
The Last Poets,
the Soft Cell,
Skaos,
Camberwell Now,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bobby Hutcherson,
H. Thieme,
Erykah Badu,
Terry Callier,
Matthew Halsall,
Masters at Work,
Slave,
Ultra Naté,
Scion,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
K-Klass,
LL Cool J,
Clear Light,
Piero Umiliani,
Blancmange,
Lucky Dragons,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Flash Fearless,
Swell Maps,
Negative Approach,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pagans,
Eli Mardock,
Iggy Pop,
Donny Hathaway,
Hashim,
One Last Wish,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
Andrew Hill,
The Vogues,
Minnie Riperton,
The Buckinghams,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minny Pops,
The Divine Comedy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
La Düsseldorf,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.