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 Gambia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 La Düsseldorf to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Piero Umiliani,
Eli Mardock,
Dave Gahan,
Shuggie Otis,
Patti Smith,
Dennis Brown,
Unrelated Segments,
Alphaville,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities,
Bauhaus,
Nick Fraelich,
Jeru the Damaja,
Groovy Waters,
The Slackers,
10cc,
DNA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Christie,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
Fluxion,
Organ,
Nik Kershaw,
Swans,
Henry Cow,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Yellowson,
Livin' Joy,
John Holt,
Charles Mingus,
Amazonics,
DJ Sneak,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mantronix,
Magazine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Harry Pussy,
Agitation Free,
Amon Düül,
Sixth Finger,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Finger,
The Golliwogs,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultravox,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lungfish,
Nas,
Bill Wells,
Anakelly,
The Motions,
Underground Resistance,
Letta Mbulu,
Eric B and Rakim,
Half Japanese,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.