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 Indonesia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar 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 Gichy Dan to the funk 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Bang On A Can,
Donny Hathaway,
The Happenings,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Todd Terry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alice Coltrane,
Andrew Hill,
the Slits,
Yellowson,
The Velvet Underground,
Bill Near,
Traffic Nightmare,
Easy Going,
T.S.O.L.,
Juan Atkins,
Half Japanese,
Harmonia,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Trojans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Average White Band,
Index,
Chrome,
The New Christs,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Golliwogs,
Second Layer,
Hardrive,
Lalann,
Hashim,
Johnny Clarke,
Ludus,
Lucky Dragons,
Erasure,
the Soft Cell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Newcleus,
The Saints,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television,
The Fugs,
The Red Krayola,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pantaleimon,
Absolute Body Control,
Kenny Larkin,
Black Moon,
Moby Grape,
Thee Headcoats,
Anthony Braxton,
Steve Hackett,
Janne Schatter,
Mr. Review,
Davy DMX,
The Moody Blues,
Tears for Fears,
The Barracudas,
the Swans,
Echospace,
Scion,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.