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 Thailand and from New York.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar 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 Joe Smooth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Basic Channel,
Tomorrow,
Joe Smooth,
Sun City Girls,
This Heat,
Black Pus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Todd Rundgren,
Skarface,
John Coltrane,
Symarip,
The Beau Brummels,
Nils Olav,
Surgeon,
Scientists,
Warren Ellis,
Patti Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Junior Murvin,
Byron Stingily,
The Slackers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Smiths,
A Certain Ratio,
Gang Green,
Drexciya,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Little Man,
Shoche,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
L. Decosne,
The Young Rascals,
Monks,
FM Einheit,
Theoretical Girls,
Dual Sessions,
Swans,
Y Pants,
John Cale,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Moleskins,
Barbara Tucker,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Spandau Ballet,
The Associates,
Mars,
Goldenarms,
10cc,
One Last Wish,
Anthony Braxton,
Freddie Wadling,
Rekid,
Skaos,
Pole,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soul II Soul,
Second Layer,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.