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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sound Behaviour to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Neil Young,
MC5,
L. Decosne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Quando Quango,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Görl,
Wolf Eyes,
Livin' Joy,
Guru Guru,
Eden Ahbez,
The Happenings,
John Coltrane,
Metal Thangz,
The Offenders,
The Move,
Kevin Saunderson,
PIL,
Lungfish,
The Searchers,
Sällskapet,
The Mummies,
The Real Kids,
Pere Ubu,
Bill Wells,
OOIOO,
Ken Boothe,
X-Ray Spex,
Monks,
Mr. Review,
Boredoms,
Reagan Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
Marmalade,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fela Kuti,
Glenn Branca,
Mark Hollis,
Althea and Donna,
Negative Approach,
Black Sheep,
Second Layer,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Bauhaus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Excepter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amazonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
Juan Atkins,
Ossler,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Evens,
Joyce Sims,
Nik Kershaw,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Bananas,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.