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 Jordan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Leonard Cohen to the electroclash 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Los Fastidios,
LL Cool J,
The Electric Prunes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sandy B,
The Neon Judgement,
ABBA,
Yaz,
Soft Machine,
Monks,
The Cramps,
Wasted Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shoche,
Albert Ayler,
Visage,
MC5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Schoolly D,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cybotron,
Mars,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Depeche Mode,
Adolescents,
The Standells,
Hot Snakes,
Ice-T,
Cymande,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jacques Brel,
Blossom Toes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stiv Bators,
Josef K,
Half Japanese,
Bronski Beat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Aswad,
Scott Walker,
UT,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Warren Ellis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scientists,
The Evens,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arthur Verocai,
The Invisible,
Letta Mbulu,
Bobby Sherman,
Harmonia,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dead Boys,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.