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 Belize and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 David Bowie 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 Flipper to the rock 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cal Tjader,
Soft Machine,
Mandrill,
Roy Ayers,
Saccharine Trust,
Hot Snakes,
Man Parrish,
T.S.O.L.,
World's Most,
Brick,
kango's stein massive,
Alison Limerick,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Toni Rubio,
Desert Stars,
Khruangbin,
Pole,
Banda Bassotti,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gabor Szabo,
Robert Görl,
The Dead C,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Y Pants,
The Pretty Things,
The Cowsills,
The J.B.'s,
Amon Düül,
John Foxx,
Neil Young,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sister Nancy,
Sällskapet,
Skarface,
John Holt,
Massinfluence,
Pulsallama,
The Doors,
Surgeon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harmonia,
Kenny Larkin,
Joe Finger,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Metal Thangz,
Patti Smith,
Tom Boy,
Cheater Slicks,
Ronnie Foster,
Kas Product,
The Smiths,
Accadde A,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cure,
Essential Logic,
The Fire Engines,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.