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 Brazil and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Icehouse to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
The New Christs,
Jawbox,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camouflage,
The Leaves,
Flash Fearless,
Schoolly D,
Sixth Finger,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Gap Band,
The Move,
Monks,
Supertramp,
Lindisfarne,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Halsall,
ABC,
Fatback Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Funky Four + One,
The Doors,
Babytalk,
Aaron Thompson,
Mo-Dettes,
Make Up,
B.T. Express,
Stereo Dub,
Depeche Mode,
Massinfluence,
the Swans,
DNA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Erykah Badu,
Rosa Yemen,
Infiniti,
Bluetip,
Delta 5,
Rotary Connection,
Rites of Spring,
Soft Cell,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
PIL,
Scrapy,
Colin Newman,
Sound Behaviour,
Subhumans,
David McCallum,
Juan Atkins,
The Black Dice,
Vainqueur,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Lightning Bolt,
The Saints,
Idris Muhammad,
The Stooges,
The J.B.'s,
The Monochrome Set,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.