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 Costa Rica and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jacob Miller to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Gap Band,
The Grass Roots,
The Angels of Light,
The Dirtbombs,
Danielle Patucci,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Move,
Sparks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Intrusion,
Second Layer,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Henry Cow,
The Slackers,
Ken Boothe,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alphaville,
Joensuu 1685,
The Index,
The Gun Club,
Minutemen,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yazoo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ice-T,
Unrelated Segments,
DJ Sneak,
Patti Smith,
Ponytail,
AZ,
Mars,
Neil Young,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Foxx,
Hardrive,
Gang Green,
New York Dolls,
L. Decosne,
Avey Tare,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker,
The Last Poets,
Todd Terry,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Archie Shepp,
Hashim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fat Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Hasil Adkins,
Yaz,
Alice Coltrane,
48th St. Collective,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.