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 Israel and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 The Trojans to the disco 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Peter & Gordon,
the Bar-Kays,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bad Manners,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fugs,
Subhumans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Von Mondo,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott Heron,
Godley & Creme,
Marc Almond,
Niagra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Letta Mbulu,
Bauhaus,
DNA,
Agent Orange,
Lalann,
Pantytec,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Public Enemy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eden Ahbez,
Severed Heads,
10cc,
Barry Ungar,
Nation of Ulysses,
Alton Ellis,
MC5,
Mandrill,
Infiniti,
Arab on Radar,
Magma,
Aural Exciters,
Procol Harum,
Robert Görl,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Neil Young,
Fatback Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Laurel Aitken,
Nik Kershaw,
Colin Newman,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gap Band,
Hot Snakes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kenny Larkin,
Skarface,
Essential Logic,
Prince Buster,
X-102,
Public Image Ltd.,
Charles Mingus,
Janne Schatter,
Negative Approach,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.