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 Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gil Scott Heron to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Pus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Buzzcocks,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Associates,
The Gun Club,
Anakelly,
Sixth Finger,
One Last Wish,
Moby Grape,
Kayak,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sun Ra,
Todd Terry,
The Martian,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dawn Penn,
Marvin Gaye,
Pantaleimon,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blake Baxter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chrome,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DNA,
The J.B.'s,
Nils Olav,
Fad Gadget,
Josef K,
James White and The Blacks,
Carl Craig,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Misunderstood,
Wolf Eyes,
Fluxion,
Bronski Beat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Reuben Wilson,
The Standells,
Black Bananas,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Isaac Hayes,
Dead Boys,
Joyce Sims,
Gastr Del Sol,
Davy DMX,
Andrew Hill,
The Five Americans,
Mary Jane Girls,
kango's stein massive,
Aaron Thompson,
the Normal,
The Names,
Talk Talk,
Thee Headcoats,
Underground Resistance,
Bluetip,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.