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 Turkey and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 marimba 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 Cluster to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
The Slits,
Drive Like Jehu,
Derrick Morgan,
The Walker Brothers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Ludus,
Index,
Eric Dolphy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deakin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fire Engines,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Young Rascals,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed,
Sällskapet,
The United States of America,
Funkadelic,
Archie Shepp,
Minnie Riperton,
Bluetip,
Howard Jones,
Mantronix,
Arcadia,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mad Mike,
Ultra Naté,
New Age Steppers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ten City,
The Vogues,
Rites of Spring,
The Star Department,
Chrome,
Bang On A Can,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
FM Einheit,
Barrington Levy,
Ronan,
Radio Birdman,
Peter and Kerry,
Sixth Finger,
a-ha,
Rotary Connection,
the Germs,
The Invisible,
Michelle Simonal,
Robert Hood,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Terry Callier,
Quadrant,
Marmalade,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Stooges,
John Holt,
The Gap Band,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.