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 Nicaragua and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
The J.B.'s,
Zapp,
Chris & Cosey,
Althea and Donna,
Sällskapet,
Index,
Niagra,
Donny Hathaway,
cv313,
Intrusion,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scott Walker,
the Germs,
Davy DMX,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Names,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Model 500,
The Divine Comedy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ralphi Rosario,
Radiohead,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Boredoms,
Bobby Byrd,
The Electric Prunes,
Yusef Lateef,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Masters at Work,
The Count Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fortunes,
Magazine,
the Human League,
Aaron Thompson,
This Heat,
James White and The Blacks,
Silicon Teens,
The Gap Band,
Piero Umiliani,
World's Most,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kaleidoscope,
Quando Quango,
DJ Style,
Echospace,
Black Sheep,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.