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 Armenia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Skarface to the electroclash 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Roger Hodgson,
Kerrie Biddell,
T.S.O.L.,
Stiv Bators,
Accadde A,
Silicon Teens,
The Moleskins,
The Stooges,
Q65,
Roy Ayers,
Rufus Thomas,
Moby Grape,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mojo Men,
Pantaleimon,
Warren Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Sixth Finger,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Second Layer,
Popol Vuh,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris Corsano,
Robert Wyatt,
Smog,
Wings,
The Neon Judgement,
Marmalade,
Echospace,
John Foxx,
Icehouse,
Babytalk,
Steve Hackett,
Hardrive,
Vainqueur,
Eric Dolphy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Letta Mbulu,
Black Sheep,
Grauzone,
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terry Callier,
One Last Wish,
Shoche,
Ronnie Foster,
Ken Boothe,
The Skatalites,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Toasters,
Bill Near,
Pussy Galore,
Quadrant,
Radiohead,
Arcadia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed,
Robert Görl,
The Five Americans,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.