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 Guyana and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Eric Copeland,
The Gladiators,
T.S.O.L.,
Gichy Dan,
Symarip,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lalo Schifrin,
CMW,
Youth Brigade,
Dead Boys,
Kas Product,
The Misunderstood,
Blake Baxter,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blackbyrds,
Throbbing Gristle,
Au Pairs,
The Gap Band,
Albert Ayler,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Stereo Dub,
Graham Central Station,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Womack,
Shoche,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Soft Cell,
Robert Wyatt,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Mo-Dettes,
Sight & Sound,
Metal Thangz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Görl,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
John Foxx,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Flag,
the Slits,
Soulsonic Force,
Minny Pops,
Chrome,
Banda Bassotti,
Darondo,
The Red Krayola,
Pet Shop Boys,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Barracudas,
Heaven 17,
The Monks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Enemy,
Easy Going,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.