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 Azerbaijan and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Durutti Column to the punk 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Flipper,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Wake,
MDC,
Ponytail,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Connie Case,
Tim Buckley,
Peter and Kerry,
Ornette Coleman,
Hashim,
Wolf Eyes,
Nas,
Ohio Players,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
LL Cool J,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronnie Foster,
The American Breed,
Eddi Front,
Swans,
Oblivians,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grauzone,
Colin Newman,
Yusef Lateef,
Negative Approach,
Fat Boys,
Glenn Branca,
Piero Umiliani,
DJ Sneak,
Symarip,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
This Heat,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sex Pistols,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Man Parrish,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Agent Orange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David McCallum,
Peter & Gordon,
Little Man,
Shuggie Otis,
The Seeds,
Donald Byrd,
Lindisfarne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mission of Burma,
MC5,
Scan 7,
Rotary Connection,
Delta 5,
John Holt,
The Dave Clark Five,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.