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 Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Royal Family And The Poor 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Youth Brigade,
Surgeon,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Soft Cell,
Niagra,
Urselle,
James White and The Blacks,
The Sound,
Skaos,
Q and Not U,
The Happenings,
Warren Ellis,
Wolf Eyes,
Groovy Waters,
The Mummies,
Tomorrow,
The Litter,
Jawbox,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Offenders,
The Residents,
The Standells,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-101,
Charles Mingus,
Agitation Free,
John Coltrane,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Womack,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Human League,
Carl Craig,
One Last Wish,
Alton Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
John Cale,
Anthony Braxton,
E-Dancer,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
World's Most,
Sarah Menescal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oneida,
L. Decosne,
Con Funk Shun,
Rakim,
Bob Dylan,
Agent Orange,
Eric B and Rakim,
Talk Talk,
Section 25,
The United States of America,
Alice Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.