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 Turkey and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 James White and The Blacks to the funk 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Audionom,
Bobby Sherman,
Gregory Isaacs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sonic Youth,
Lakeside,
Zero Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
Metal Thangz,
F. McDonald,
Section 25,
Pere Ubu,
Stetsasonic,
Terry Callier,
Isaac Hayes,
Buzzcocks,
Lyres,
UT,
Silicon Teens,
Unwound,
The Names,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Starr,
Essential Logic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Moleskins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Porter Ricks,
Rufus Thomas,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ultra Naté,
Quadrant,
Robert Wyatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pantaleimon,
The Fugs,
Stiv Bators,
Sound Behaviour,
Harmonia,
Joy Division,
ABBA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Underground Resistance,
Tubeway Army,
Patti Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
A Certain Ratio,
Ossler,
Liliput,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
X-102,
David Axelrod,
Agent Orange,
H. Thieme,
Big Daddy Kane,
Flash Fearless,
10cc,
Babytalk,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.