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 Armenia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Excepter to the jazz 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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grey Daturas,
Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Knickerbockers,
The Trojans,
The Golliwogs,
Sun Ra,
Nik Kershaw,
The Tremeloes,
Fugazi,
kango's stein massive,
Alton Ellis,
Negative Approach,
Aural Exciters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Deepchord,
These Immortal Souls,
Lungfish,
Faust,
Johnny Clarke,
Skaos,
Black Moon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pharoah Sanders,
Spandau Ballet,
Iggy Pop,
The Slackers,
Terry Callier,
Rapeman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
The Red Krayola,
Metal Thangz,
DJ Sneak,
Royal Trux,
Darondo,
Fear,
Eric Dolphy,
Rosa Yemen,
Davy DMX,
Anakelly,
Audionom,
John Lydon,
The Durutti Column,
Harmonia,
JFA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Happenings,
Danielle Patucci,
Dark Day,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lakeside,
Boredoms,
Wolf Eyes,
Rotary Connection,
The Techniques,
Desert Stars,
The Offenders,
Gang Starr,
Easy Going,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.