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 Albania and from New York.
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 Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Fall to the rock 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
Lower 48,
Bush Tetras,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warren Ellis,
Harry Pussy,
These Immortal Souls,
Agitation Free,
KRS-One,
Pylon,
Tom Boy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
R.M.O.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arcadia,
Groovy Waters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Foxx,
Grauzone,
The Blackbyrds,
Ice-T,
Essential Logic,
Suburban Knight,
Basic Channel,
Joe Smooth,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül,
Boredoms,
Godley & Creme,
Eden Ahbez,
Chris Corsano,
Yazoo,
Blossom Toes,
Albert Ayler,
The Music Machine,
Heaven 17,
The Moleskins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Teasers,
Royal Trux,
Laurel Aitken,
X-101,
Rakim,
World's Most,
Gabor Szabo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Idris Muhammad,
Ituana,
The Busters,
The Grass Roots,
The Searchers,
the Association,
Anakelly,
Kurtis Blow,
Talk Talk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.