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 Sri Lanka and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Johnny Clarke,
Das Ding,
Japan,
Organ,
Laurel Aitken,
June Days,
Vainqueur,
Thee Headcoats,
Panda Bear,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ludus,
Amon Düül II,
Isaac Hayes,
Suburban Knight,
The J.B.'s,
Rufus Thomas,
Eurythmics,
PIL,
Tommy Roe,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Cowsills,
ABC,
Kerri Chandler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jandek,
Magma,
Jesper Dahlback,
Babytalk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sam Rivers,
Lalann,
Robert Wyatt,
Idris Muhammad,
Monolake,
K-Klass,
Liliput,
The Names,
Clear Light,
Blancmange,
Fat Boys,
Minny Pops,
Black Bananas,
Fad Gadget,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Erykah Badu,
The Wake,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Q and Not U,
Sonic Youth,
the Germs,
Alphaville,
Iggy Pop,
Barclay James Harvest,
China Crisis,
Andrew Hill,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.