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 St Lucia and from Tehran.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pylon to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
The Barracudas,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dorothy Ashby,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Slits,
Whodini,
Jawbox,
John Coltrane,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camouflage,
The Leaves,
Zero Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
The Index,
Howard Jones,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Josef K,
Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stereo Dub,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fugs,
Icehouse,
Yaz,
Michelle Simonal,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Absolute Body Control,
Johnny Osbourne,
Procol Harum,
The United States of America,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crooked Eye,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Doors,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alphaville,
The Sonics,
Deepchord,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeru the Damaja,
kango's stein massive,
Ituana,
Fela Kuti,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Quadrant,
Jacob Miller,
Severed Heads,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Can,
Peter & Gordon,
Sugar Minott,
The Durutti Column,
Index,
MC5,
Byron Stingily,
China Crisis,
The Names,
Japan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.