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 Switzerland and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Connie Case to the crunk 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sam Rivers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Parry Music,
Lakeside,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mary Jane Girls,
Henry Cow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ultravox,
K-Klass,
Flipper,
Q and Not U,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mr. Review,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Spandau Ballet,
The Standells,
Crash Course in Science,
Soft Machine,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
Judy Mowatt,
Scrapy,
Bad Manners,
Inner City,
Clear Light,
Pharoah Sanders,
Second Layer,
The Monochrome Set,
F. McDonald,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yazoo,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Wake,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Fall,
John Foxx,
Bill Wells,
Circle Jerks,
Fluxion,
Infiniti,
Terry Callier,
Kaleidoscope,
The Victims,
The Black Dice,
Dead Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
Chris Corsano,
Can,
The Vogues,
EPMD,
Cheater Slicks,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.