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 Mexico and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Andrew Hill to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Vogues,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Connie Case,
The Pop Group,
Can,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
X-102,
Rapeman,
Joyce Sims,
Animal Collective,
Cameo,
Slick Rick,
Letta Mbulu,
One Last Wish,
Henry Cow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Adolescents,
Agitation Free,
Scan 7,
Electric Light Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
The Birthday Party,
Nirvana,
Magazine,
James White and The Blacks,
Tom Boy,
Eric Copeland,
Todd Rundgren,
Alison Limerick,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
the Sonics,
The Real Kids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Little Man,
Lightning Bolt,
Eurythmics,
Joy Division,
the Slits,
Pierre Henry,
Schoolly D,
The Trojans,
Mad Mike,
Pulsallama,
Fugazi,
Amon Düül II,
Ossler,
Pole,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alton Ellis,
Infiniti,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dead Boys,
Negative Approach,
Skaos,
The Evens,
Groovy Waters,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.