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 Belize and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 Arab on Radar to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Cal Tjader,
CMW,
Charles Mingus,
The Sonics,
Ossler,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Soft Cell,
Smog,
Hasil Adkins,
Reagan Youth,
Donald Byrd,
Bluetip,
Aloha Tigers,
cv313,
Zero Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Guru Guru,
Johnny Clarke,
the Slits,
Pole,
David Bowie,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lee Hazlewood,
Spoonie Gee,
Moss Icon,
Aaron Thompson,
This Heat,
Shoche,
Peter and Kerry,
Public Enemy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scott Walker,
Idris Muhammad,
Pet Shop Boys,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
8 Eyed Spy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joy Division,
the Association,
In Retrospect,
Index,
Dennis Brown,
Visage,
The Associates,
Babytalk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gang Starr,
FM Einheit,
Matthew Halsall,
Ice-T,
Oblivians,
Reuben Wilson,
The Slackers,
Brass Construction,
The Fall,
Black Flag,
Japan,
Rotary Connection,
Heaven 17,
Outsiders,
Sound Behaviour,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.