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 Tuvalu and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Godley & Creme to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Todd Rundgren,
Roger Hodgson,
Dawn Penn,
Mars,
The Star Department,
The Sonics,
Essential Logic,
The Dave Clark Five,
Surgeon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Man Parrish,
L. Decosne,
Gang Green,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stereo Dub,
AZ,
Skarface,
Tim Buckley,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alphaville,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alice Coltrane,
Basic Channel,
Monks,
Bobby Sherman,
Dorothy Ashby,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vladislav Delay,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Hood,
Eden Ahbez,
Johnny Clarke,
The Human League,
The Monks,
Warren Ellis,
Shoche,
The Pop Group,
Rakim,
Aaron Thompson,
Junior Murvin,
Qualms,
Kerrie Biddell,
Zero Boys,
Jandek,
Radiohead,
Roy Ayers,
Byron Stingily,
Los Fastidios,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Animal Collective,
10cc,
Lindisfarne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.