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 Salvador.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Johannesburg.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Amon Düül to the jazz 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
U.S. Maple,
Absolute Body Control,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Birthday Party,
Michelle Simonal,
Fela Kuti,
The Cramps,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terry Callier,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Traffic Nightmare,
John Foxx,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Black Dice,
The Searchers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bronski Beat,
Hashim,
David Axelrod,
Aaron Thompson,
Mantronix,
Visage,
The Divine Comedy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mars,
Shuggie Otis,
Excepter,
B.T. Express,
Robert Görl,
Man Eating Sloth,
Aural Exciters,
Stiv Bators,
Don Cherry,
Danielle Patucci,
the Germs,
Kayak,
Ornette Coleman,
Chris Corsano,
Tom Boy,
The Zeros,
Suicide,
Jacob Miller,
Donny Hathaway,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Newcleus,
AZ,
Tommy Roe,
The Saints,
Sound Behaviour,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marine Girls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barry Ungar,
Alison Limerick,
Arab on Radar,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
10cc,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.