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 Bulgaria and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
K-Klass,
Lungfish,
The Toasters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Flag,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Wyatt,
Scrapy,
Bush Tetras,
Aural Exciters,
The Selecter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ronnie Foster,
Toni Rubio,
Hasil Adkins,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moebius,
Depeche Mode,
Monks,
New Age Steppers,
The Zeros,
Cybotron,
Television,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lucky Dragons,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Alphaville,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Excepter,
Mary Jane Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amon Düül II,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Surgeon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Zero Boys,
Duran Duran,
The Smiths,
Mars,
Adolescents,
Kurtis Blow,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Marine Girls,
Heaven 17,
Dennis Brown,
Anakelly,
Terrestrial Tones,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ohio Players,
Flipper,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.