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 Austria and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 FM Einheit to the crunk 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alton Ellis,
The Smoke,
Nick Fraelich,
Reuben Wilson,
Tom Boy,
The Standells,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Skatalites,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gap Band,
Moby Grape,
The Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
Circle Jerks,
Livin' Joy,
Joyce Sims,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Flash Fearless,
Rufus Thomas,
The Young Rascals,
The Slits,
Accadde A,
David Axelrod,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Faraquet,
Theoretical Girls,
Trumans Water,
Bang On A Can,
Banda Bassotti,
Deepchord,
Lalann,
The Litter,
Massinfluence,
Whodini,
Cluster,
Tears for Fears,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neu!,
Scan 7,
Bluetip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tropical Tobacco,
Anthony Braxton,
Surgeon,
Wings,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Animal Collective,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Altered Images,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Gun Club,
Gil Scott Heron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.