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 Mozambique and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Danielle Patucci to the jazz 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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ludus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Davy DMX,
The Grass Roots,
R.M.O.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joe Finger,
Intrusion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Junior Murvin,
Scrapy,
Roger Hodgson,
Monolake,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Thee Headcoats,
Pagans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Names,
The Martian,
New Order,
Rosa Yemen,
Hashim,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donny Hathaway,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Doobie Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
Loose Ends,
Dual Sessions,
Kayak,
Peter and Kerry,
Mo-Dettes,
Basic Channel,
Judy Mowatt,
Mandrill,
Animal Collective,
Amon Düül,
Sound Behaviour,
Cecil Taylor,
Tomorrow,
Grauzone,
Youth Brigade,
Howard Jones,
The Detroit Cobras,
Neu!,
Crash Course in Science,
Vladislav Delay,
Bush Tetras,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Machine,
Ronnie Foster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jandek,
Stiv Bators,
Saccharine Trust,
Lakeside,
One Last Wish,
Black Sheep,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.