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 Vietnam and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Whodini to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Roxette,
The Detroit Cobras,
David Axelrod,
Soft Machine,
Josef K,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pantaleimon,
Crash Course in Science,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Youth Brigade,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crime,
Wasted Youth,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Goldenarms,
Alphaville,
Panda Bear,
Roxy Music,
Radiohead,
Sonic Youth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amazonics,
Soul Sonic Force,
Darondo,
Royal Trux,
Yazoo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Index,
Rites of Spring,
Lakeside,
Ituana,
DJ Sneak,
Qualms,
The Birthday Party,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gun Club,
Funkadelic,
Vainqueur,
Symarip,
FM Einheit,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Steve Hackett,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Motorama,
Warsaw,
The Associates,
The Zeros,
Audionom,
Grauzone,
The Trojans,
the Bar-Kays,
The Beau Brummels,
Robert Hood,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter and Kerry,
The Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
D'Angelo,
June Days,
Skriet,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.