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 Iraq and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grime 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Boz Scaggs,
Underground Resistance,
Shuggie Otis,
Letta Mbulu,
Absolute Body Control,
Outsiders,
Barclay James Harvest,
La Düsseldorf,
Juan Atkins,
Bad Manners,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Agent Orange,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Beau Brummels,
Rosa Yemen,
Godley & Creme,
Sam Rivers,
Warsaw,
Cameo,
The Fortunes,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gichy Dan,
The Blackbyrds,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultra Naté,
The Vogues,
Rod Modell,
Isaac Hayes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Icehouse,
One Last Wish,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick May,
Deepchord,
Qualms,
Sarah Menescal,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wings,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Bourne,
Gil Scott Heron,
Funkadelic,
CMW,
The Offenders,
The Trojans,
A Certain Ratio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scan 7,
Glambeats Corp.,
E-Dancer,
John Coltrane,
Tommy Roe,
The Martian,
The Walker Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
Oneida,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.