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 United Kingdom and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scrapy,
Visage,
Scratch Acid,
Donald Byrd,
The Blackbyrds,
The Zeros,
The Move,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Yusef Lateef,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Parrish,
Guru Guru,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Five Americans,
Nirvana,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Livin' Joy,
The Slackers,
Y Pants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang of Four,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shoche,
Khruangbin,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Pus,
June of 44,
Pierre Henry,
Blake Baxter,
Zapp,
Crash Course in Science,
Boz Scaggs,
The Residents,
Hot Snakes,
The Monochrome Set,
Lebanon Hanover,
Don Cherry,
Deepchord,
Aaron Thompson,
Can,
Trumans Water,
Chris & Cosey,
Letta Mbulu,
The Evens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Faraquet,
Byron Stingily,
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Happenings,
Kerri Chandler,
Ronnie Foster,
Loose Ends,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.