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 Chile and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mary Jane Girls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
The Offenders,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crooked Eye,
Laurel Aitken,
LL Cool J,
Black Flag,
X-101,
Charles Mingus,
Excepter,
Radiohead,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobbi Humphrey,
JFA,
Man Parrish,
Matthew Halsall,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pagans,
Section 25,
Marc Almond,
Organ,
The Mummies,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pulsallama,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Monochrome Set,
Eve St. Jones,
Ossler,
Pussy Galore,
The Fugs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lower 48,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nico,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gong,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hashim,
the Slits,
The Cure,
The Gladiators,
Sight & Sound,
U.S. Maple,
KRS-One,
New York Dolls,
Minor Threat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Alice Coltrane,
Drexciya,
ABC,
Basic Channel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
Outsiders,
Joe Smooth,
The Associates,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.