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 Pakistan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 The Cure to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
Hoover,
Radiopuhelimet,
Slave,
Sun Ra,
Agitation Free,
Pulsallama,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
D'Angelo,
The Knickerbockers,
Delta 5,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minutemen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smiths,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Vainqueur,
Interpol,
Vladislav Delay,
Procol Harum,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
U.S. Maple,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Victims,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Bowie,
Darondo,
Bronski Beat,
Joyce Sims,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joy Division,
Kaleidoscope,
Max Romeo,
Tubeway Army,
Grauzone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
Gabor Szabo,
Average White Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Motorama,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Associates,
The Dave Clark Five,
Easy Going,
The Fire Engines,
Symarip,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Selecter,
Moebius,
Index,
Adolescents,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.