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 Bahrain and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Second Layer to the rock 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Standells,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mummies,
Derrick Morgan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Blossom Toes,
The Smiths,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Byron Stingily,
Aural Exciters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Germs,
John Cale,
The Moleskins,
Albert Ayler,
Mantronix,
Kayak,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mission of Burma,
Surgeon,
The Happenings,
Alison Limerick,
Terry Callier,
Lalann,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
Bluetip,
The Wake,
E-Dancer,
Shoche,
Organ,
Joensuu 1685,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultravox,
Lyres,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed,
Can,
CMW,
Bootsy Collins,
Kerri Chandler,
David Axelrod,
Gabor Szabo,
The Cowsills,
The New Christs,
Soft Machine,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Parry Music,
The Real Kids,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marine Girls,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Womack,
Neu!,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.