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 Kosovo and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Negative Approach to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Lower 48,
Eddi Front,
Tomorrow,
New Order,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sam Rivers,
Sixth Finger,
Negative Approach,
Robert Görl,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Golliwogs,
Suburban Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
H. Thieme,
Ten City,
Moebius,
Silicon Teens,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grauzone,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
MDC,
Morten Harket,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Albert Ayler,
Stetsasonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Gap Band,
Niagra,
The Standells,
Henry Cow,
The Five Americans,
Amon Düül,
Archie Shepp,
The Smiths,
Heaven 17,
Nas,
Althea and Donna,
Vainqueur,
Minutemen,
Skaos,
New Age Steppers,
Can,
Judy Mowatt,
Lalann,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Josef K,
Camouflage,
World's Most,
Oblivians,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne,
Johnny Clarke,
Erykah Badu,
Aloha Tigers,
Man Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
Colin Newman,
Drive Like Jehu,
June Days,
Pantaleimon,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.