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 Suriname 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Scion to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
John Holt,
Dead Boys,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Evens,
Cal Tjader,
Scan 7,
Boogie Down Productions,
Basic Channel,
Skriet,
Funky Four + One,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vainqueur,
Ken Boothe,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Surgeon,
The Zeros,
Joensuu 1685,
Panda Bear,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Mojo Men,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Agitation Free,
Al Stewart,
Television,
Easy Going,
Blossom Toes,
Rapeman,
Popol Vuh,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Suburban Knight,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
F. McDonald,
The Knickerbockers,
Radiohead,
Amon Düül,
Brass Construction,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
Nils Olav,
Angry Samoans,
New Order,
Charles Mingus,
Visage,
Faust,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nas,
Grauzone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Average White Band,
The Gap Band,
Das Ding,
Fela Kuti,
Hasil Adkins,
Graham Central Station,
Von Mondo,
Y Pants,
Black Sheep,
Dual Sessions,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.