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 Venezuela and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba 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 One Last Wish to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Standells. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Black Dice,
PIL,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ronnie Foster,
Index,
Dave Gahan,
Rufus Thomas,
China Crisis,
Anthony Braxton,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Associates,
Pere Ubu,
Mars,
Chris Corsano,
Amon Düül,
Cameo,
Bad Manners,
Stiv Bators,
Unrelated Segments,
Aaron Thompson,
One Last Wish,
Pussy Galore,
Smog,
Barbara Tucker,
Donny Hathaway,
KRS-One,
Sonic Youth,
Ultra Naté,
Josef K,
Intrusion,
Average White Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Television,
OOIOO,
Ultravox,
Scientists,
K-Klass,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sonny Sharrock,
Thee Headcoats,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions,
Robert Wyatt,
The Star Department,
The Smiths,
Ohio Players,
Sound Behaviour,
The Durutti Column,
Camouflage,
Sandy B,
Simply Red,
The Walker Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Patti Smith,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Brothers Johnson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
David McCallum,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.