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 Sierra Leone and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Sight & Sound to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Cell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ornette Coleman,
Moebius,
Bauhaus,
Altered Images,
Lakeside,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The J.B.'s,
Pantytec,
Arab on Radar,
the Bar-Kays,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Section 25,
Spoonie Gee,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalann,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dorothy Ashby,
Boredoms,
Joe Smooth,
Crime,
ABBA,
The Fire Engines,
Metal Thangz,
LL Cool J,
Isaac Hayes,
Scott Walker,
the Sonics,
Marvin Gaye,
The Leaves,
F. McDonald,
Eli Mardock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Erasure,
Kas Product,
Byron Stingily,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nik Kershaw,
Deadbeat,
Sarah Menescal,
Animal Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
The New Christs,
Royal Trux,
Audionom,
Livin' Joy,
Alton Ellis,
R.M.O.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marine Girls,
Ohio Players,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
China Crisis,
DJ Style,
Radiohead,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Pretty Things,
Nas,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.