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 Algeria and from Bologna.
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 Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes 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 Hot Snakes to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
June of 44,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Knickerbockers,
Babytalk,
Howard Jones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Flag,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang of Four,
La Düsseldorf,
Kayak,
Siglo XX,
Urselle,
Eden Ahbez,
Sandy B,
Quantec,
Aaron Thompson,
The Star Department,
Todd Terry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bauhaus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Chrome,
Aural Exciters,
The Cure,
Delon & Dalcan,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lakeside,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stereo Dub,
Althea and Donna,
Anthony Braxton,
Arab on Radar,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Skarface,
Fugazi,
Deepchord,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kerri Chandler,
Half Japanese,
Pulsallama,
Sugar Minott,
Minutemen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mission of Burma,
Bootsy Collins,
K-Klass,
Mr. Review,
B.T. Express,
Schoolly D,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marc Almond,
The J.B.'s,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.