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 Mexico and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Heaven 17 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Quantec,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scratch Acid,
Roxy Music,
Von Mondo,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris Corsano,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cowsills,
Moss Icon,
Barry Ungar,
Fatback Band,
Section 25,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sun City Girls,
Average White Band,
Panda Bear,
the Slits,
The Last Poets,
Kayak,
The Selecter,
Heaven 17,
Todd Rundgren,
The Martian,
Patti Smith,
China Crisis,
Talk Talk,
Sugar Minott,
Bobby Hutcherson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funky Four + One,
Monolake,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Style,
Dual Sessions,
Black Bananas,
U.S. Maple,
Tom Boy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bush Tetras,
Davy DMX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blake Baxter,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultravox,
Lou Christie,
Radiohead,
The Stooges,
The Techniques,
Sixth Finger,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joe Smooth,
Todd Terry,
Oblivians,
cv313,
Surgeon,
Theoretical Girls,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.