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 Lithuania and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Avey Tare to the funk 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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Ronan,
Audionom,
The Human League,
Rapeman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rakim,
Lightning Bolt,
Minutemen,
Funkadelic,
Mr. Review,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Easy Going,
La Düsseldorf,
Bush Tetras,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monochrome Set,
Sandy B,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The New Christs,
Marshall Jefferson,
48th St. Collective,
Dark Day,
Sun Ra,
Harmonia,
Fela Kuti,
Ralphi Rosario,
Banda Bassotti,
Brass Construction,
Juan Atkins,
Masters at Work,
The Offenders,
June of 44,
Jandek,
Au Pairs,
Trumans Water,
Matthew Halsall,
Piero Umiliani,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fire Engines,
Skaos,
Johnny Clarke,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Absolute Body Control,
Albert Ayler,
Anthony Braxton,
Bad Manners,
Stetsasonic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Bar-Kays,
The Invisible,
Thompson Twins,
Unrelated Segments,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick Morgan,
Outsiders,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.