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 Guatemala and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Lower 48 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barrington Levy,
L. Decosne,
Lower 48,
Black Moon,
Mr. Review,
Easy Going,
AZ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scientists,
Q65,
Sonic Youth,
Barry Ungar,
Alton Ellis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cure,
Yellowson,
Crash Course in Science,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Arcadia,
Robert Wyatt,
Lou Reed,
Funky Four + One,
Section 25,
DJ Sneak,
Nation of Ulysses,
Letta Mbulu,
Moss Icon,
Masters at Work,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Vogues,
Shuggie Otis,
The Motions,
The Happenings,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Flipper,
Jeff Lynne,
Charles Mingus,
Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Godley & Creme,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Janne Schatter,
Model 500,
Howard Jones,
Pantaleimon,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Funkadelic,
Roy Ayers,
Lakeside,
The Grass Roots,
Maleditus Sound,
Yaz,
The Techniques,
Neu!,
The Walker Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.