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 Tajikistan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kaleidoscope to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Goldenarms,
Sight & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Ultra Naté,
Rekid,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mary Jane Girls,
CMW,
The Toasters,
Steve Hackett,
Sun City Girls,
Fatback Band,
Arcadia,
KRS-One,
Darondo,
the Normal,
Nas,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alphaville,
Barry Ungar,
The Walker Brothers,
Animal Collective,
Depeche Mode,
Marc Almond,
Heaven 17,
Eurythmics,
The Skatalites,
Loose Ends,
Essential Logic,
Dennis Brown,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eddi Front,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gap Band,
Alison Limerick,
Black Flag,
Gastr Del Sol,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Moleskins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
June Days,
Soft Machine,
The Birthday Party,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
World's Most,
Bill Near,
The Slits,
Simply Red,
Hoover,
Kaleidoscope,
Sam Rivers,
The Black Dice,
The Busters,
Lou Reed,
Joyce Sims,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.