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 Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Television Personalities to the techno 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
The Black Dice,
Rakim,
Hashim,
The Fall,
Ten City,
Scion,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ken Boothe,
Gong,
Fela Kuti,
Tim Buckley,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fear,
The Sonics,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ultra Naté,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Stooges,
The Shadows of Knight,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Susan Cadogan,
Gichy Dan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Von Mondo,
Jacques Brel,
Godley & Creme,
The Angels of Light,
The Gap Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gil Scott Heron,
ABC,
Arcadia,
Joy Division,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Sonics,
Marc Almond,
Mars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Colin Newman,
Groovy Waters,
The Blues Magoos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
OOIOO,
Dual Sessions,
The Electric Prunes,
Khruangbin,
Fatback Band,
Alphaville,
E-Dancer,
Lakeside,
Motorama,
Make Up,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.