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 Comoros and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soft Machine to the disco 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lyres,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The United States of America,
Mark Hollis,
The Selecter,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
Sex Pistols,
New Age Steppers,
The Wake,
Smog,
Lalann,
Bronski Beat,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lalo Schifrin,
Inner City,
Andrew Hill,
Ohio Players,
Isaac Hayes,
Fear,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tubeway Army,
Neil Young,
Heaven 17,
Yazoo,
The Angels of Light,
Panda Bear,
Loose Ends,
Outsiders,
Archie Shepp,
Animal Collective,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lou Reed,
Fluxion,
New York Dolls,
Cluster,
Albert Ayler,
Carl Craig,
Ituana,
Skaos,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bauhaus,
Monolake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visage,
Matthew Halsall,
In Retrospect,
Agitation Free,
Prince Buster,
Minor Threat,
The Stooges,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
The Seeds,
Bang On A Can,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.