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 Latvia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Babytalk to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Model 500,
Derrick Morgan,
Japan,
Jeff Lynne,
Aaron Thompson,
Jandek,
Swell Maps,
Index,
Letta Mbulu,
Yellowson,
Bobby Sherman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Steve Hackett,
Ludus,
Jacob Miller,
Yusef Lateef,
Funkadelic,
Dawn Penn,
Lightning Bolt,
Eric B and Rakim,
Procol Harum,
Josef K,
Arthur Verocai,
Barclay James Harvest,
New Age Steppers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gories,
Man Parrish,
Pantytec,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joy Division,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Main Source,
Zapp,
The Slits,
X-102,
Hoover,
Althea and Donna,
JFA,
Khruangbin,
Lindisfarne,
Suicide,
Wire,
Metal Thangz,
Gastr Del Sol,
Average White Band,
The Monks,
Davy DMX,
OOIOO,
Gang Green,
Fluxion,
Wally Richardson,
Saccharine Trust,
Cluster,
Radiohead,
Max Romeo,
Blossom Toes,
Wings,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.