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 Indonesia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sonny Sharrock to the grunge 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Fear,
The Busters,
The Selecter,
These Immortal Souls,
The Gladiators,
Archie Shepp,
Cecil Taylor,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sound Behaviour,
Deakin,
Ohio Players,
Delon & Dalcan,
10cc,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Todd Rundgren,
Banda Bassotti,
Electric Prunes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soulsonic Force,
Mantronix,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brass Construction,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wally Richardson,
Babytalk,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stereo Dub,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Standells,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick May,
Khruangbin,
Sight & Sound,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Knickerbockers,
Gregory Isaacs,
UT,
Todd Terry,
The Dead C,
The Grass Roots,
Delta 5,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sun City Girls,
Skarface,
Silicon Teens,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Newcleus,
KRS-One,
Sällskapet,
Terry Callier,
Gichy Dan,
Cheater Slicks,
Scrapy,
Jeff Lynne,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Walker Brothers,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Intrusion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.