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 Taiwan and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Alice Coltrane to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
James White and The Blacks,
Bobby Sherman,
Franke,
Unrelated Segments,
Roxy Music,
Ponytail,
10cc,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Bourne,
Massinfluence,
Glenn Branca,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aswad,
Henry Cow,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
D'Angelo,
Juan Atkins,
Ultra Naté,
The Martian,
The Raincoats,
Ken Boothe,
Todd Terry,
Tommy Roe,
Procol Harum,
Lucky Dragons,
Magma,
Au Pairs,
Harmonia,
Marvin Gaye,
The Tremeloes,
The Black Dice,
The Slackers,
Yellowson,
Brothers Johnson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Monks,
Eden Ahbez,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Essential Logic,
Yaz,
Traffic Nightmare,
Intrusion,
Soft Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sugar Minott,
The Birthday Party,
Lightning Bolt,
Slave,
Pylon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sandy B,
Swans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eric Dolphy,
Matthew Halsall,
Hasil Adkins,
Agent Orange,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.