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 Seychelles and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb 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 Matthew Bourne to the punk 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Dirtbombs,
Sarah Menescal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sandy B,
Lalo Schifrin,
Index,
One Last Wish,
The Zeros,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Buckinghams,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Byron Stingily,
The Mummies,
Audionom,
Symarip,
cv313,
The Neon Judgement,
The Durutti Column,
Brand Nubian,
The Shadows of Knight,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David Axelrod,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deepchord,
Bush Tetras,
Mark Hollis,
The Blues Magoos,
Rites of Spring,
Excepter,
Black Sheep,
Arab on Radar,
Royal Trux,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tubeway Army,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eddi Front,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Coltrane,
The Barracudas,
Cymande,
Television,
R.M.O.,
The Velvet Underground,
Underground Resistance,
James White and The Blacks,
New Order,
Roxette,
Ituana,
Pagans,
The Count Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Althea and Donna,
the Human League,
The Gories,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.