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 Senegal and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The United States of America to the dance 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Sparks,
The Young Rascals,
MDC,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hardrive,
Intrusion,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Human League,
Mantronix,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Real Kids,
AZ,
Wolf Eyes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lakeside,
PIL,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Don Cherry,
Dennis Brown,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Simply Red,
Magma,
Lindisfarne,
Chris & Cosey,
The Modern Lovers,
Nils Olav,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Section 25,
Franke,
Minutemen,
Derrick Morgan,
Cal Tjader,
These Immortal Souls,
The Skatalites,
Scientists,
Dawn Penn,
Nick Fraelich,
Glambeats Corp.,
Terry Callier,
Make Up,
Amon Düül,
Theoretical Girls,
Suburban Knight,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
a-ha,
Jacob Miller,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
New Order,
The Gladiators,
Radio Birdman,
Ossler,
Marcia Griffiths,
David McCallum,
Little Man,
the Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.