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 Guinea-Bissau and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Make Up to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Eric Dolphy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bootsy Collins,
Heaven 17,
Bang On A Can,
Rotary Connection,
Howard Jones,
Dual Sessions,
Alton Ellis,
Boredoms,
Average White Band,
Stetsasonic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Barrington Levy,
Grey Daturas,
Michelle Simonal,
Cameo,
Warsaw,
Masters at Work,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Unrelated Segments,
Loose Ends,
Hashim,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marine Girls,
Talk Talk,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
B.T. Express,
Robert Wyatt,
Procol Harum,
The Move,
The Monochrome Set,
Judy Mowatt,
Sexual Harrassment,
Y Pants,
Tommy Roe,
The Standells,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Beau Brummels,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gladiators,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Slits,
Royal Trux,
Simply Red,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
kango's stein massive,
Spoonie Gee,
Youth Brigade,
The Trojans,
Marcia Griffiths,
La Düsseldorf,
Laurel Aitken,
The Divine Comedy,
Scott Walker,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Japan,
X-101,
Pet Shop Boys,
Inner City,
The Names,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.