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 Honduras and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Excepter to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Massinfluence,
The Motions,
Peter & Gordon,
Nico,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crooked Eye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Last Poets,
Marmalade,
Spandau Ballet,
Tubeway Army,
Jeff Lynne,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Style,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Circle Jerks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Isaac Hayes,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cowsills,
Fela Kuti,
Eli Mardock,
Warren Ellis,
Alison Limerick,
Wire,
Underground Resistance,
Sister Nancy,
The Slits,
Bobby Sherman,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rod Modell,
The Kinks,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fuzztones,
R.M.O.,
Idris Muhammad,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Magma,
Steve Hackett,
Yusef Lateef,
The Slackers,
Half Japanese,
Sällskapet,
Banda Bassotti,
H. Thieme,
Don Cherry,
Spoonie Gee,
The Human League,
Dual Sessions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric Dolphy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Colin Newman,
Eric Copeland,
The Cramps,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thompson Twins,
The Evens,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.