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 Congo and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Todd Rundgren,
Rekid,
Alice Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Style,
Country Teasers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rapeman,
Babytalk,
Bobby Sherman,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T. Rex,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Dolphy,
Tres Demented,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mummies,
The Names,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grey Daturas,
Altered Images,
Danielle Patucci,
The United States of America,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pulsallama,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crime,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Little Man,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quantec,
Trumans Water,
The Cowsills,
The Tremeloes,
the Germs,
Second Layer,
Absolute Body Control,
Erykah Badu,
The Raincoats,
H. Thieme,
Niagra,
The Doors,
Skarface,
Echospace,
Jandek,
David Axelrod,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
These Immortal Souls,
June Days,
James White and The Blacks,
The Move,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Five Americans,
Shoche,
10cc,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.