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 Croatia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 June Days to the rock 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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Pylon,
Johnny Clarke,
Dorothy Ashby,
Todd Rundgren,
Sonic Youth,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pere Ubu,
The Slackers,
the Swans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mantronix,
Lee Hazlewood,
Excepter,
Kurtis Blow,
Unrelated Segments,
Fatback Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
LL Cool J,
In Retrospect,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Graham Central Station,
John Coltrane,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultra Naté,
Parry Music,
Index,
Michelle Simonal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deadbeat,
X-101,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Connie Case,
Boogie Down Productions,
Archie Shepp,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chris Corsano,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Darondo,
Eric Dolphy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
New Age Steppers,
Pagans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pantytec,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Doobie Brothers,
David Bowie,
Byron Stingily,
Drexciya,
Matthew Halsall,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Royal Trux,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.