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 Cuba and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the jazz 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Sandy B,
Deepchord,
Sonny Sharrock,
Maleditus Sound,
Icehouse,
John Coltrane,
The Birthday Party,
Ponytail,
Donny Hathaway,
Moebius,
Soft Machine,
Franke,
Amon Düül II,
Erasure,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Stiv Bators,
Aswad,
The Fall,
Gang Green,
The Dirtbombs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sonic Youth,
Arthur Verocai,
Sun City Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bush Tetras,
The Zeros,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marmalade,
Pere Ubu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camberwell Now,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crime,
The American Breed,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Womack,
The Martian,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lightning Bolt,
Accadde A,
the Soft Cell,
David Axelrod,
Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Q and Not U,
Avey Tare,
Laurel Aitken,
Monolake,
Arab on Radar,
ABC,
Oneida,
Ludus,
Negative Approach,
Parry Music,
Hoover,
Talk Talk,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.