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 Gambia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 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 Flipper to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Glenn Branca,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Human League,
Aswad,
Ten City,
Main Source,
Minny Pops,
Average White Band,
Patti Smith,
The Vogues,
The Move,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry's Kids,
MC5,
Gang of Four,
Deepchord,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
MDC,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marine Girls,
Vainqueur,
Tom Boy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Robert Görl,
Eurythmics,
Gichy Dan,
The Blues Magoos,
Spandau Ballet,
These Immortal Souls,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Searchers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wings,
Boogie Down Productions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Slick Rick,
Radiohead,
New Order,
Funky Four + One,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bluetip,
Quantec,
Pylon,
Fatback Band,
Ponytail,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wolf Eyes,
Aloha Tigers,
Masters at Work,
Susan Cadogan,
Bad Manners,
Smog,
Sonny Sharrock,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Youth Brigade,
Faraquet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.