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 Tanzania and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hardrive to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Ten City,
The Real Kids,
Dennis Brown,
Moebius,
Nation of Ulysses,
MC5,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Associates,
kango's stein massive,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
R.M.O.,
Public Enemy,
Spandau Ballet,
Max Romeo,
Jacob Miller,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Severed Heads,
Letta Mbulu,
Rites of Spring,
Bobby Sherman,
Absolute Body Control,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
Radiohead,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Unwound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Todd Rundgren,
Dark Day,
Zero Boys,
Vainqueur,
Sam Rivers,
Chrome,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Golliwogs,
L. Decosne,
ABBA,
Sandy B,
Soul II Soul,
The Techniques,
KRS-One,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Man Parrish,
The Five Americans,
Guru Guru,
Godley & Creme,
Mo-Dettes,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Angels of Light,
June of 44,
Dual Sessions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.