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 Slovakia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Albert Ayler to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Radiohead,
Kayak,
Q and Not U,
X-101,
Lalann,
Man Parrish,
Donald Byrd,
The Evens,
Mandrill,
Robert Hood,
Q65,
Aloha Tigers,
Darondo,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ultra Naté,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joe Smooth,
L. Decosne,
Kas Product,
Black Flag,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gladiators,
Deepchord,
The Slackers,
Monolake,
Freddie Wadling,
Eden Ahbez,
The Residents,
10cc,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Babytalk,
Funkadelic,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bobby Womack,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Last Poets,
These Immortal Souls,
Eric Dolphy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Shuggie Otis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Section 25,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Basic Channel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Monks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Five Americans,
The Birthday Party,
The Zeros,
The Count Five,
Lucky Dragons,
Fad Gadget,
Janne Schatter,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.