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 Belize and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kas Product to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Underground Resistance,
Josef K,
Lungfish,
Scrapy,
the Sonics,
Swans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Public Enemy,
Easy Going,
Lindisfarne,
MDC,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sight & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Delta 5,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Lynne,
Jesper Dahlback,
Y Pants,
Wire,
Scan 7,
Boz Scaggs,
Faraquet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Peter & Gordon,
The Slackers,
Davy DMX,
Monks,
Scientists,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thee Headcoats,
The Human League,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Fall,
Desert Stars,
Bootsy Collins,
Johnny Clarke,
MC5,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tomorrow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Duran Duran,
the Bar-Kays,
Trumans Water,
Absolute Body Control,
Frankie Knuckles,
Anakelly,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
X-101,
This Heat,
Eric Dolphy,
Nik Kershaw,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Copeland,
The Saints,
Peter and Kerry,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.