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 Rwanda and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb 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 Section 25 to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Section 25,
The Slits,
The Star Department,
Niagra,
June of 44,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Erasure,
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio,
The Gories,
Smog,
Model 500,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fuzztones,
Eden Ahbez,
Aural Exciters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Porter Ricks,
the Sonics,
Chris Corsano,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Suburban Knight,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boz Scaggs,
Symarip,
Wasted Youth,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Henry Cow,
The Wake,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Zero Boys,
Angry Samoans,
The Litter,
the Germs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sister Nancy,
Rufus Thomas,
Swans,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Real Kids,
The Searchers,
OOIOO,
The Birthday Party,
The Happenings,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barclay James Harvest,
Janne Schatter,
Quando Quango,
Harmonia,
Minnie Riperton,
Mantronix,
The Neon Judgement,
Cecil Taylor,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
U.S. Maple,
The Motions,
Matthew Bourne,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.