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 Turkmenistan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South 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 New Age Steppers to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Wire,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gabor Szabo,
Mo-Dettes,
Country Teasers,
Juan Atkins,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Certain Ratio,
The Knickerbockers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lou Christie,
Ten City,
Aaron Thompson,
The Birthday Party,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Smog,
Eyeless In Gaza,
X-Ray Spex,
The Mummies,
Sällskapet,
Arthur Verocai,
Roxette,
Scratch Acid,
Funky Four + One,
Gang Green,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeff Lynne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minny Pops,
JFA,
The Barracudas,
Cameo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
Michelle Simonal,
Eve St. Jones,
Monks,
The Standells,
Alphaville,
Ice-T,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nico,
Technova,
Matthew Bourne,
Pole,
The Angels of Light,
The Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
Max Romeo,
Andrew Hill,
Whodini,
Jerry's Kids,
Inner City,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Lydon,
Drexciya,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warsaw,
The Music Machine,
The Seeds,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.