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 Tunisia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Motorama 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
June of 44,
Moby Grape,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crooked Eye,
Moebius,
Scion,
Quadrant,
T.S.O.L.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mandrill,
Beasts of Bourbon,
a-ha,
the Bar-Kays,
Darondo,
B.T. Express,
Dawn Penn,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minnie Riperton,
Newcleus,
Negative Approach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Robert Hood,
Ornette Coleman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick Morgan,
Symarip,
Fluxion,
Avey Tare,
The Doors,
The Red Krayola,
Erasure,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Todd Rundgren,
Jandek,
Leonard Cohen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crime,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Harry Pussy,
The Alarm Clocks,
These Immortal Souls,
KRS-One,
Skriet,
Patti Smith,
Deakin,
Deepchord,
Mantronix,
Chris Corsano,
The Velvet Underground,
L. Decosne,
Morten Harket,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Malaria!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Average White Band,
Radio Birdman,
Grauzone,
Pylon,
The Toasters,
Altered Images,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.