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 Micronesia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 PIL to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Gang of Four,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Chris & Cosey,
The Vogues,
Whodini,
Alton Ellis,
Erykah Badu,
Warsaw,
Jawbox,
Arthur Verocai,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lower 48,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Stereo Dub,
The New Christs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Country Teasers,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cramps,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marine Girls,
Roy Ayers,
Model 500,
Pierre Henry,
Wasted Youth,
Kurtis Blow,
Wally Richardson,
Chris Corsano,
Amazonics,
Young Marble Giants,
Heaven 17,
Porter Ricks,
Scion,
Eric B and Rakim,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cheater Slicks,
John Coltrane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Tremeloes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Television Personalities,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Q and Not U,
The Evens,
Rekid,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nik Kershaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gichy Dan,
Althea and Donna,
The Count Five,
Barrington Levy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Infiniti,
Cymande,
kango's stein massive,
The United States of America,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.