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 Moldova and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang Green,
Delta 5,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Absolute Body Control,
The Electric Prunes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scrapy,
Cymande,
Dead Boys,
Erasure,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Glenn Branca,
Bootsy Collins,
Jacob Miller,
Dave Gahan,
Kurtis Blow,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Popol Vuh,
Jimmy McGriff,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Sonics,
Junior Murvin,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Byrd,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Wire,
Black Bananas,
Nick Fraelich,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Dolphy,
Pulsallama,
Fat Boys,
Albert Ayler,
Boogie Down Productions,
Faust,
Supertramp,
Pagans,
The Toasters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Essential Logic,
CMW,
The New Christs,
Tim Buckley,
Bauhaus,
Lalo Schifrin,
Subhumans,
The Litter,
In Retrospect,
Ossler,
The Zeros,
Johnny Clarke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Iggy Pop,
World's Most,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barrington Levy,
KRS-One,
Scientists,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.