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 Greece and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Toni Rubio to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Donald Byrd,
Pantytec,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brick,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Clarke,
The Grass Roots,
the Bar-Kays,
Parry Music,
Kurtis Blow,
Minutemen,
The Remains,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minny Pops,
Average White Band,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fela Kuti,
Surgeon,
Jerry's Kids,
The Skatalites,
Schoolly D,
Television,
Rod Modell,
Gang Starr,
Cecil Taylor,
The Velvet Underground,
Livin' Joy,
Infiniti,
The Residents,
Roxette,
Rapeman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crime,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Christie,
John Coltrane,
Q and Not U,
The Fugs,
Joe Finger,
Graham Central Station,
ABC,
The Golliwogs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Popol Vuh,
Eve St. Jones,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Accadde A,
Eden Ahbez,
Joensuu 1685,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultra Naté,
Nas,
Ponytail,
Don Cherry,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.