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 Malawi and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator 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 In Retrospect to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Severed Heads,
The Cowsills,
The Vogues,
Supertramp,
Mr. Review,
Half Japanese,
The Stooges,
Harry Pussy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Minny Pops,
Liliput,
The Names,
Derrick May,
Junior Murvin,
Glenn Branca,
Faust,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
ABBA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Germs,
The Golliwogs,
Anthony Braxton,
Tommy Roe,
Morten Harket,
the Slits,
Sonny Sharrock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
Blake Baxter,
Barclay James Harvest,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sister Nancy,
Byron Stingily,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Black Dice,
Excepter,
Amon Düül II,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Pus,
Big Daddy Kane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Drive Like Jehu,
Erasure,
The Sisters of Mercy,
A Certain Ratio,
The Kinks,
Soulsonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minor Threat,
DJ Sneak,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Tremeloes,
Audionom,
Depeche Mode,
Joy Division,
Kerri Chandler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.