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 Canada and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Eli Mardock to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Toasters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pagans,
Q and Not U,
Main Source,
Public Image Ltd.,
Archie Shepp,
Peter and Kerry,
Zero Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Maleditus Sound,
Crash Course in Science,
Clear Light,
Das Ding,
Pulsallama,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fuzztones,
Maurizio,
Brand Nubian,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Surgeon,
Letta Mbulu,
Al Stewart,
Severed Heads,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Lakeside,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Desert Stars,
Susan Cadogan,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
FM Einheit,
Sex Pistols,
Average White Band,
Bill Wells,
Delta 5,
Nas,
The American Breed,
KRS-One,
Q65,
Roy Ayers,
T. Rex,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yusef Lateef,
Easy Going,
Robert Wyatt,
Buzzcocks,
Davy DMX,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.