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 East Timor and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Lou Christie,
Mandrill,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Womack,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The American Breed,
Pantytec,
Mars,
Electric Prunes,
The Motions,
Wally Richardson,
The Moleskins,
The Neon Judgement,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
The United States of America,
Severed Heads,
Arcadia,
Eden Ahbez,
Altered Images,
The Dave Clark Five,
Public Enemy,
Pussy Galore,
Joy Division,
Black Sheep,
Second Layer,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Essential Logic,
Susan Cadogan,
David McCallum,
Blancmange,
John Lydon,
Negative Approach,
Sexual Harrassment,
Monks,
The Star Department,
Funky Four + One,
David Bowie,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Slick Rick,
Barry Ungar,
Vainqueur,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Grey Daturas,
Model 500,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hoover,
Idris Muhammad,
Derrick Morgan,
Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
Technova,
B.T. Express,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brothers Johnson,
The Invisible,
Drexciya,
Sister Nancy,
Monolake,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.