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 Mauritius and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Wasted Youth to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gories. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Arcadia,
Swell Maps,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Coltrane,
The Toasters,
Boredoms,
Jandek,
These Immortal Souls,
Vainqueur,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Mummies,
The Stooges,
EPMD,
Mantronix,
Kas Product,
John Cale,
Icehouse,
Echospace,
Pulsallama,
Silicon Teens,
Anthony Braxton,
Prince Buster,
The Birthday Party,
Funkadelic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Moleskins,
Mandrill,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
Babytalk,
Josef K,
Aural Exciters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed,
Neil Young,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smoke,
The Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Excepter,
Au Pairs,
Marine Girls,
Reuben Wilson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sugar Minott,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dark Day,
Jacob Miller,
Sixth Finger,
Second Layer,
June Days,
Tommy Roe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Sight & Sound,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.