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 Spain and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe 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 Max Romeo to the electroclash 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
John Lydon,
Sarah Menescal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barbara Tucker,
Todd Rundgren,
cv313,
Anakelly,
Alison Limerick,
Peter and Kerry,
Kayak,
Alton Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Ultimate Spinach,
Wire,
Danielle Patucci,
In Retrospect,
The Zeros,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joey Negro,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Avey Tare,
Kerrie Biddell,
Half Japanese,
JFA,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ten City,
Black Pus,
Audionom,
The Blackbyrds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Matthew Halsall,
Sound Behaviour,
Warsaw,
Radiohead,
ABBA,
The Divine Comedy,
Rapeman,
the Bar-Kays,
Average White Band,
Arcadia,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Magma,
Terry Callier,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Coltrane,
Neu!,
The Invisible,
Black Sheep,
The Neon Judgement,
the Sonics,
Malaria!,
Boredoms,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mr. Review,
Visage,
X-102,
Second Layer,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.