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 Cuba and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 mellotron 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 Nas to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
MC5,
The Walker Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
Neu!,
Arthur Verocai,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Holt,
Index,
T. Rex,
Yusef Lateef,
Kerri Chandler,
Max Romeo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Little Man,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Moebius,
Danielle Patucci,
Boogie Down Productions,
Charles Mingus,
The Fugs,
EPMD,
Brand Nubian,
June of 44,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Foxx,
Peter & Gordon,
Marshall Jefferson,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Association,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Toasters,
Cecil Taylor,
Trumans Water,
DNA,
Pantaleimon,
Radiohead,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scion,
Andrew Hill,
The Smiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
Fluxion,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Darondo,
Youth Brigade,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nico,
Masters at Work,
Public Enemy,
Supertramp,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crooked Eye,
The Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Blackbyrds,
Urselle,
Average White Band,
Pagans,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.