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 Uzbekistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 JFA to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Vainqueur,
Byron Stingily,
Warsaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Kas Product,
Donny Hathaway,
Lakeside,
The Tremeloes,
Minutemen,
Lucky Dragons,
Qualms,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Grass Roots,
The Move,
The New Christs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Arab on Radar,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Blues Magoos,
Siglo XX,
The Knickerbockers,
Traffic Nightmare,
H. Thieme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Association,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Index,
Charles Mingus,
The Fall,
Symarip,
T. Rex,
Soul Sonic Force,
Echospace,
The Cowsills,
Crash Course in Science,
Sparks,
Wolf Eyes,
The Vogues,
Toni Rubio,
Amon Düül II,
Model 500,
Rosa Yemen,
Neil Young,
The J.B.'s,
The Smiths,
The Raincoats,
Eve St. Jones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mission of Burma,
The Cramps,
a-ha,
Pierre Henry,
David Axelrod,
Subhumans,
The Modern Lovers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.