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 Nepal and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Section 25 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quadrant,
Glambeats Corp.,
Vainqueur,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dawn Penn,
H. Thieme,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ituana,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Index,
The Move,
Alphaville,
The Last Poets,
LL Cool J,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Pet Shop Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
FM Einheit,
10cc,
Minor Threat,
Frankie Knuckles,
F. McDonald,
AZ,
The Offenders,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Knickerbockers,
KRS-One,
Dave Gahan,
Scientists,
Colin Newman,
Panda Bear,
Janne Schatter,
The New Christs,
The Happenings,
Man Parrish,
Desert Stars,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sugar Minott,
Arab on Radar,
Pole,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Althea and Donna,
ABC,
PIL,
Wings,
New Age Steppers,
Bauhaus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Icehouse,
UT,
Blossom Toes,
ABBA,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.