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 Peru and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Patti Smith to the grunge 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T. Rex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Flash Fearless,
Albert Ayler,
Flipper,
Talk Talk,
Chrome,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television,
Avey Tare,
Roy Ayers,
Royal Trux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
Simply Red,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skarface,
Guru Guru,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick Morgan,
Cameo,
Jacques Brel,
Eve St. Jones,
Rod Modell,
Aswad,
The Mummies,
Bang On A Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soulsonic Force,
Grauzone,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Q and Not U,
Dave Gahan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Slits,
U.S. Maple,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deadbeat,
Buzzcocks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sight & Sound,
World's Most,
Fad Gadget,
Isaac Hayes,
Minutemen,
Suicide,
Agitation Free,
The Young Rascals,
The Kinks,
Easy Going,
Matthew Bourne,
Rotary Connection,
Fear,
Rakim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.