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 Bulgaria and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Donald Fagen 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the techno 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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Stockholm Monsters,
Harry Pussy,
Boredoms,
Alison Limerick,
Sound Behaviour,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Make Up,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Average White Band,
Flash Fearless,
Radiohead,
Neu!,
Nico,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soft Cell,
Tommy Roe,
David Axelrod,
Lakeside,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Patti Smith,
Donny Hathaway,
Maleditus Sound,
Joe Smooth,
The Mummies,
Minny Pops,
Todd Terry,
Depeche Mode,
MDC,
KRS-One,
The Last Poets,
The Sonics,
Blossom Toes,
Cybotron,
The Count Five,
48th St. Collective,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Graham Central Station,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Funkadelic,
Chrome,
Subhumans,
R.M.O.,
Deakin,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Names,
ABBA,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thompson Twins,
Bang On A Can,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.