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 Malaysia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kayak to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Main Source,
Ultravox,
Peter & Gordon,
The Young Rascals,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ponytail,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camberwell Now,
Tears for Fears,
Lee Hazlewood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Happenings,
Eric Dolphy,
Organ,
The Real Kids,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drexciya,
The Trojans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Normal,
Excepter,
Skriet,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tim Buckley,
The Gories,
This Heat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
DJ Style,
Danielle Patucci,
Underground Resistance,
The Litter,
Motorama,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ohio Players,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eddi Front,
Vladislav Delay,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Swell Maps,
The Gun Club,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lower 48,
The Neon Judgement,
The Five Americans,
Faraquet,
Tubeway Army,
Bobby Womack,
Gabor Szabo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yusef Lateef,
Theoretical Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Minny Pops,
Albert Ayler,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.