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 Congo and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pagans to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
R.M.O.,
Sixth Finger,
Main Source,
Ultimate Spinach,
Unrelated Segments,
Harry Pussy,
Quantec,
Pere Ubu,
Davy DMX,
Erykah Badu,
The Walker Brothers,
Arcadia,
Flipper,
The Velvet Underground,
Mr. Review,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Coltrane,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Tremeloes,
Pole,
Television Personalities,
Kayak,
LL Cool J,
Gang of Four,
Bill Wells,
China Crisis,
Altered Images,
Symarip,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bob Dylan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cecil Taylor,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultravox,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Desert Stars,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jimmy McGriff,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Neon Judgement,
Cheater Slicks,
Saccharine Trust,
Roy Ayers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fire Engines,
Mandrill,
Skaos,
Crispy Ambulance,
Toni Rubio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jandek,
Los Fastidios,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.