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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 The Pop Group to the grime 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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Ronnie Foster,
Donald Byrd,
Nation of Ulysses,
Althea and Donna,
James White and The Blacks,
Ohio Players,
John Cale,
JFA,
The Fugs,
Wings,
Patti Smith,
The Knickerbockers,
Wire,
Bobby Sherman,
Au Pairs,
The Pretty Things,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cameo,
Vladislav Delay,
The Remains,
Absolute Body Control,
Agitation Free,
The Alarm Clocks,
Josef K,
the Soft Cell,
Al Stewart,
Von Mondo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Laurel Aitken,
Susan Cadogan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Leonard Cohen,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sällskapet,
Cal Tjader,
Mo-Dettes,
Isaac Hayes,
Wolf Eyes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Green,
Index,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pulsallama,
The Index,
The Techniques,
John Coltrane,
The Doors,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Interpol,
Cymande,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Can,
Motorama,
Grauzone,
Agent Orange,
AZ,
The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs.
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.