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 Togo and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe 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 Ossler to the grunge 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Judy Mowatt,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Derrick May,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gories,
Leonard Cohen,
Joensuu 1685,
F. McDonald,
Fela Kuti,
Jawbox,
Barrington Levy,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
Matthew Halsall,
Matthew Bourne,
Rotary Connection,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
R.M.O.,
Warren Ellis,
Radiohead,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Womack,
Animal Collective,
The Trojans,
Fluxion,
Crispy Ambulance,
Section 25,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
The Birthday Party,
Lightning Bolt,
DJ Sneak,
ABC,
Sonny Sharrock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Remains,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Reuben Wilson,
Flipper,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Pus,
Yellowson,
Scratch Acid,
Sun Ra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
U.S. Maple,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Sherman,
Erasure,
Aloha Tigers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Five Americans,
Flash Fearless,
Piero Umiliani,
Trumans Water,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.