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 Suriname and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Sight & Sound to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Pulsallama,
Young Marble Giants,
Sandy B,
Magazine,
Lee Hazlewood,
China Crisis,
Erasure,
Kerrie Biddell,
Derrick Morgan,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Matthew Halsall,
Warren Ellis,
Jacques Brel,
Marmalade,
Janne Schatter,
the Association,
Judy Mowatt,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jacob Miller,
Skriet,
The Busters,
Altered Images,
Public Image Ltd.,
Negative Approach,
Swell Maps,
Amon Düül,
In Retrospect,
Au Pairs,
Fear,
Warsaw,
Lucky Dragons,
T. Rex,
The Blues Magoos,
Letta Mbulu,
Yaz,
Frankie Knuckles,
David Axelrod,
The Slackers,
Sugar Minott,
Danielle Patucci,
World's Most,
Public Enemy,
Ludus,
Connie Case,
R.M.O.,
DJ Sneak,
Althea and Donna,
Pantytec,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Derrick May,
Tubeway Army,
Youth Brigade,
Yellowson,
Lakeside,
The Evens,
Dual Sessions,
Technova,
Suburban Knight,
Spoonie Gee,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.