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 Niger and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bad Manners to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Clear Light,
Quantec,
Severed Heads,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mars,
New Order,
Slick Rick,
Danielle Patucci,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Technova,
Avey Tare,
Black Pus,
Jacob Miller,
Public Image Ltd.,
Delta 5,
Guru Guru,
The Happenings,
Blancmange,
Can,
Mr. Review,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
MDC,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Don Cherry,
John Cale,
Scientists,
10cc,
Radiohead,
Aloha Tigers,
Marvin Gaye,
Main Source,
The Count Five,
Cluster,
Theoretical Girls,
Swell Maps,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
a-ha,
Funky Four + One,
Lucky Dragons,
Bad Manners,
Grauzone,
Das Ding,
Darondo,
Peter & Gordon,
Tom Boy,
Rakim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Babytalk,
the Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Arthur Verocai,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Television,
Stetsasonic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.