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 Bangladesh and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Donny Hathaway to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Hoover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gichy Dan,
Severed Heads,
Albert Ayler,
Ultimate Spinach,
Boredoms,
Pagans,
Underground Resistance,
Flipper,
UT,
JFA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Surgeon,
Junior Murvin,
Whodini,
Parry Music,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Stiv Bators,
Duran Duran,
The Shadows of Knight,
Negative Approach,
Magazine,
Massinfluence,
Yaz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Neon Judgement,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scan 7,
Nas,
MC5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
The New Christs,
Kas Product,
John Foxx,
Hasil Adkins,
Bill Wells,
Leonard Cohen,
Roger Hodgson,
Average White Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Anakelly,
cv313,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Davy DMX,
Rufus Thomas,
Little Man,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gladiators,
the Normal,
Moebius,
Swans,
Skaos,
Desert Stars,
Hardrive,
Neu!,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Dave Clark Five,
Niagra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.