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 East Timor and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Symarip to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Scientists,
Tommy Roe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
China Crisis,
Sixth Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
MDC,
OOIOO,
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel,
Monks,
Vladislav Delay,
Sugar Minott,
Brass Construction,
Zapp,
10cc,
Ornette Coleman,
The Music Machine,
The Young Rascals,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drexciya,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Grass Roots,
Dawn Penn,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sonics,
The Saints,
Hardrive,
Bill Near,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Judy Mowatt,
Guru Guru,
John Holt,
Magma,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soft Machine,
Marmalade,
Swans,
Y Pants,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Blackbyrds,
Deepchord,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
cv313,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Don Cherry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.