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 Singapore and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Janne Schatter,
Eden Ahbez,
Masters at Work,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun Ra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Matthew Halsall,
Boogie Down Productions,
Moss Icon,
Piero Umiliani,
Ohio Players,
the Fania All-Stars,
Interpol,
Accadde A,
Soulsonic Force,
Fatback Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Siglo XX,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Victims,
Absolute Body Control,
Hardrive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rotary Connection,
Ultra Naté,
Mr. Review,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Junior Murvin,
Deadbeat,
Donald Byrd,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lindisfarne,
The Fuzztones,
Sam Rivers,
Khruangbin,
Jawbox,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonic Youth,
The Mummies,
The Residents,
the Sonics,
Von Mondo,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
Cybotron,
Massinfluence,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
FM Einheit,
Sonny Sharrock,
Arthur Verocai,
Nico,
Mark Hollis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
ABC,
Procol Harum,
Mission of Burma,
Black Pus,
The Golliwogs,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.