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 Maldives and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Unrelated Segments to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Can,
The Mummies,
Ohio Players,
Television Personalities,
The Sound,
Thompson Twins,
Siglo XX,
The Knickerbockers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Easy Going,
Rotary Connection,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Liliput,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mo-Dettes,
Rakim,
John Holt,
The Gories,
The Slackers,
The New Christs,
Supertramp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rapeman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Second Layer,
Mandrill,
The Raincoats,
Wally Richardson,
Terry Callier,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Albert Ayler,
Q and Not U,
Max Romeo,
The Durutti Column,
Hardrive,
Malaria!,
The Five Americans,
The American Breed,
The Doobie Brothers,
Maurizio,
Animal Collective,
Arthur Verocai,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Saccharine Trust,
Schoolly D,
Ten City,
Japan,
Ronan,
The Blues Magoos,
Swell Maps,
The Neon Judgement,
Flash Fearless,
Harmonia,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Count Five,
Nils Olav,
Davy DMX,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.