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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Graham Central Station to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Qualms,
Max Romeo,
Pantaleimon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Kinks,
Freddie Wadling,
X-Ray Spex,
Deakin,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Swans,
The Human League,
Marvin Gaye,
Peter & Gordon,
Ossler,
The Move,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Juan Atkins,
Unrelated Segments,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hardrive,
The Star Department,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sound Behaviour,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brass Construction,
Todd Rundgren,
LL Cool J,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Popol Vuh,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Audionom,
MC5,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Index,
June Days,
Mark Hollis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joyce Sims,
Tomorrow,
The Gories,
Technova,
Bootsy Collins,
Silicon Teens,
Minnie Riperton,
Joy Division,
Second Layer,
Erasure,
One Last Wish,
The Velvet Underground,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Angels of Light,
Steve Hackett,
Roger Hodgson,
CMW,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Carl Craig,
Harmonia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
B.T. Express,
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.