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 Cameroon and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
The Searchers,
Scratch Acid,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Monks,
Excepter,
kango's stein massive,
The Beau Brummels,
Juan Atkins,
Negative Approach,
Trumans Water,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
JFA,
Hasil Adkins,
The Red Krayola,
Black Pus,
Rod Modell,
Soulsonic Force,
Joensuu 1685,
Youth Brigade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Duran Duran,
Gang of Four,
Chris Corsano,
The Doobie Brothers,
LL Cool J,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Victims,
Faraquet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Maurizio,
Pylon,
Scientists,
The Move,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Last Poets,
June of 44,
Kenny Larkin,
Organ,
Thee Headcoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Joe Smooth,
Swans,
Quando Quango,
China Crisis,
The Detroit Cobras,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
10cc,
Josef K,
New Age Steppers,
The Leaves,
Cameo,
Von Mondo,
Dark Day,
Intrusion,
Johnny Clarke,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Sherman,
Eden Ahbez,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.