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 Tuvalu and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Robert Görl to the punk 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Agitation Free,
Thee Headcoats,
Wasted Youth,
Ken Boothe,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bronski Beat,
The Birthday Party,
Kaleidoscope,
The Young Rascals,
The Golliwogs,
Deepchord,
The Real Kids,
Fad Gadget,
Archie Shepp,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
The Neon Judgement,
The Slits,
Nas,
Tom Boy,
Morten Harket,
Dawn Penn,
The Gap Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rotary Connection,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Toasters,
Easy Going,
The Raincoats,
Yellowson,
Bauhaus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Janne Schatter,
8 Eyed Spy,
Andrew Hill,
Delta 5,
Brick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sam Rivers,
Byron Stingily,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Style,
Joy Division,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wolf Eyes,
Outsiders,
The American Breed,
Whodini,
Henry Cow,
Essential Logic,
The Tremeloes,
Sparks,
Index,
Carl Craig,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.