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 Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rotary Connection to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Stooges,
June of 44,
Bad Manners,
The Sonics,
Section 25,
Black Pus,
In Retrospect,
Morten Harket,
Jacques Brel,
Das Ding,
Smog,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Stereo Dub,
Dennis Brown,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wolf Eyes,
Gong,
Mark Hollis,
Lyres,
Trumans Water,
Pantaleimon,
Peter & Gordon,
Dual Sessions,
Panda Bear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alphaville,
Soft Cell,
Brothers Johnson,
Archie Shepp,
Neil Young,
JFA,
The Real Kids,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eve St. Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Angry Samoans,
Little Man,
Gang of Four,
Sun City Girls,
Essential Logic,
The Smiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bob Dylan,
Basic Channel,
June Days,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cowsills,
Ituana,
Ten City,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
Supertramp,
Aswad,
Liliput,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.