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 Bahrain and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord 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 D'Angelo to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Aural Exciters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mars,
Blancmange,
Gang Starr,
Spoonie Gee,
The Five Americans,
Funky Four + One,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quadrant,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Real Kids,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lindisfarne,
Bang On A Can,
DNA,
Bronski Beat,
Kenny Larkin,
Masters at Work,
Index,
John Foxx,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Cale,
Sound Behaviour,
The Barracudas,
Cheater Slicks,
Supertramp,
Nas,
Cymande,
Janne Schatter,
Fugazi,
Byron Stingily,
Shoche,
Rekid,
The Happenings,
Unrelated Segments,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cybotron,
Porter Ricks,
The Gun Club,
Lightning Bolt,
Camouflage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ossler,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bush Tetras,
Marine Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Warsaw,
Chrome,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Image Ltd.,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.