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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Aswad to the rock 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Essential Logic,
Model 500,
Shuggie Otis,
Marvin Gaye,
Cheater Slicks,
Sarah Menescal,
Mantronix,
Bill Near,
Ossler,
China Crisis,
Agent Orange,
DJ Style,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brass Construction,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
X-102,
T. Rex,
Lyres,
Lalo Schifrin,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Graham Central Station,
The Red Krayola,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television Personalities,
the Association,
Alison Limerick,
Minor Threat,
Yaz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vladislav Delay,
The Busters,
Groovy Waters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fluxion,
Alphaville,
David McCallum,
The Fall,
Derrick May,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lower 48,
Yusef Lateef,
Prince Buster,
Idris Muhammad,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Parry Music,
Cymande,
Jandek,
Blake Baxter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
Can,
Sun City Girls,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gastr Del Sol,
Reagan Youth,
Wally Richardson,
Brick,
The Flesh Eaters,
Oblivians,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.