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 Austria and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Dark Day,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Erasure,
Heaven 17,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Girls At Our Best!,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gap Band,
Junior Murvin,
The Vogues,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sixth Finger,
Khruangbin,
The Happenings,
Grauzone,
Scientists,
Minny Pops,
Joensuu 1685,
The Zeros,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
KRS-One,
Pylon,
Todd Terry,
The Moody Blues,
Mandrill,
FM Einheit,
Wire,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Slits,
Kas Product,
Arthur Verocai,
AZ,
Sandy B,
The Moleskins,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harry Pussy,
Ohio Players,
Visage,
China Crisis,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Porter Ricks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Susan Cadogan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Doors,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zapp,
Dual Sessions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Christie,
Cal Tjader,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.