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 Iceland and from Philadelphia.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Shuggie Otis to the funk 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
The Barracudas,
Gong,
Agitation Free,
The Velvet Underground,
Moby Grape,
Piero Umiliani,
Icehouse,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Beau Brummels,
Todd Rundgren,
Eli Mardock,
Barbara Tucker,
Desert Stars,
the Swans,
The Alarm Clocks,
The American Breed,
Colin Newman,
Arcadia,
Donny Hathaway,
The Move,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sun Ra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Index,
The Vogues,
Slave,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
Rapeman,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
John Cale,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Eric Dolphy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Japan,
Dark Day,
X-Ray Spex,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Royal Trux,
the Bar-Kays,
Q and Not U,
Aloha Tigers,
Dead Boys,
The Neon Judgement,
Nico,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fad Gadget,
The Residents,
Faust,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brand Nubian,
Radiohead,
Absolute Body Control,
Ice-T,
Boredoms,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.