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 China and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron 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 Gichy Dan to the rap 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Tubeway Army,
Angry Samoans,
Scion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Misunderstood,
Bluetip,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scrapy,
Barbara Tucker,
Hashim,
Bronski Beat,
Saccharine Trust,
Wolf Eyes,
Erasure,
Crime,
Maleditus Sound,
Masters at Work,
Negative Approach,
Young Marble Giants,
James White and The Blacks,
Model 500,
The Cure,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Simply Red,
Lightning Bolt,
Alice Coltrane,
kango's stein massive,
Ohio Players,
The Gories,
Howard Jones,
Joyce Sims,
Heaven 17,
Danielle Patucci,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pylon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Martian,
Blancmange,
Silicon Teens,
Judy Mowatt,
Rosa Yemen,
Excepter,
Archie Shepp,
Funky Four + One,
Peter and Kerry,
Sonic Youth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yusef Lateef,
T.S.O.L.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Steve Hackett,
Ten City,
Colin Newman,
Stetsasonic,
Quadrant,
Neu!,
Faraquet,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.