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 Moldova and from Toronto.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 oboe 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 Agent Orange to the rap 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
H. Thieme,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
Eve St. Jones,
Arthur Verocai,
Isaac Hayes,
Suburban Knight,
Susan Cadogan,
Alice Coltrane,
CMW,
Shoche,
K-Klass,
Severed Heads,
Magma,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nils Olav,
The Beau Brummels,
Lungfish,
The Searchers,
Eddi Front,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kayak,
Silicon Teens,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brass Construction,
Nico,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pere Ubu,
The Moleskins,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pierre Henry,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fatback Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mad Mike,
Kaleidoscope,
Janne Schatter,
The Fortunes,
Tomorrow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Modern Lovers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cybotron,
Jacques Brel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonic Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Dead Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.