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 Hungary and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Aswad,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Martian,
Suicide,
Pole,
Essential Logic,
Nico,
Accadde A,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Maurizio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Matthew Bourne,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ronnie Foster,
Fifty Foot Hose,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
Freddie Wadling,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Don Cherry,
Man Parrish,
Josef K,
New York Dolls,
Animal Collective,
Vainqueur,
Agitation Free,
Silicon Teens,
Deadbeat,
The Black Dice,
Sun City Girls,
Rotary Connection,
MC5,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Avey Tare,
Bizarre Inc.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
T.S.O.L.,
Arcadia,
The Monks,
Pussy Galore,
Tim Buckley,
Yellowson,
the Association,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Anakelly,
Pulsallama,
Tubeway Army,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Prince Buster,
Jacob Miller,
Nas,
This Heat,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soft Cell,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.