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 Belize and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the dance 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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Blake Baxter,
Dennis Brown,
The Divine Comedy,
Wire,
Terry Callier,
Rekid,
The Count Five,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Electric Prunes,
Eve St. Jones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Make Up,
Lou Christie,
Bronski Beat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
Swell Maps,
Popol Vuh,
X-Ray Spex,
Radiopuhelimet,
Howard Jones,
Youth Brigade,
Country Teasers,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Slackers,
Sun City Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Lyres,
Aural Exciters,
Ken Boothe,
The Cure,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kaleidoscope,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Whodini,
The Buckinghams,
The Searchers,
kango's stein massive,
Carl Craig,
Animal Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gap Band,
Infiniti,
Average White Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Magazine,
Das Ding,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.