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 Malaysia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Bauhaus,
Donald Byrd,
Sarah Menescal,
The Neon Judgement,
Ice-T,
Section 25,
ABC,
Gang Green,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Halsall,
Sonic Youth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sonics,
Jeff Lynne,
Sister Nancy,
June of 44,
James White and The Blacks,
Laurel Aitken,
Scan 7,
Ultravox,
The Cramps,
Malaria!,
Lungfish,
Tres Demented,
Japan,
Eli Mardock,
Black Moon,
The Fortunes,
Alphaville,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Leonard Cohen,
Mission of Burma,
Loose Ends,
Yusef Lateef,
Babytalk,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eddi Front,
Todd Rundgren,
The Remains,
EPMD,
Jacob Miller,
Easy Going,
Derrick May,
Patti Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
Panda Bear,
The Leaves,
The Last Poets,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sparks,
Popol Vuh,
Magazine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
Accadde A,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deakin,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.