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 Luxembourg and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Robert Hood,
Joyce Sims,
The Golliwogs,
The Fuzztones,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wasted Youth,
Minor Threat,
Boz Scaggs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Reed,
Lindisfarne,
Gang Green,
kango's stein massive,
Maurizio,
Yaz,
Whodini,
Sun Ra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Schoolly D,
The Searchers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wolf Eyes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Graham Central Station,
Youth Brigade,
The Mummies,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
Warsaw,
Absolute Body Control,
Aural Exciters,
The Buckinghams,
Carl Craig,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Au Pairs,
The Star Department,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
B.T. Express,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Starr,
Erasure,
La Düsseldorf,
Bang On A Can,
Kurtis Blow,
E-Dancer,
X-102,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pulsallama,
Cecil Taylor,
Easy Going,
Make Up,
Model 500,
Kenny Larkin,
Franke,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Girls At Our Best!,
Henry Cow,
Con Funk Shun,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.