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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Television Personalities to the jazz 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Sight & Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Slick Rick,
The Count Five,
Los Fastidios,
Harry Pussy,
The Mummies,
Cal Tjader,
MC5,
Arab on Radar,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Smog,
Loose Ends,
Crime,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare,
Duran Duran,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Underground Resistance,
Prince Buster,
Eric Dolphy,
Das Ding,
Brand Nubian,
The Sound,
June Days,
Skaos,
Adolescents,
Guru Guru,
The Smoke,
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bill Near,
Black Sheep,
Eddi Front,
Reuben Wilson,
The Cowsills,
Q and Not U,
Lou Reed,
Hardrive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Altered Images,
Average White Band,
Robert Görl,
Anthony Braxton,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bang On A Can,
Jandek,
Henry Cow,
Panda Bear,
Amazonics,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Groovy Waters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sonics,
John Holt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Evens,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.