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 Belarus and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Khruangbin to the grunge 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Stooges,
Malaria!,
The Red Krayola,
Angry Samoans,
The Knickerbockers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Silicon Teens,
H. Thieme,
Blancmange,
Hasil Adkins,
Lucky Dragons,
Roger Hodgson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Avey Tare,
Roy Ayers,
Godley & Creme,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
The Cramps,
Dennis Brown,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scientists,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donny Hathaway,
Quantec,
Zero Boys,
Rosa Yemen,
Freddie Wadling,
Colin Newman,
Althea and Donna,
The Mojo Men,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T.S.O.L.,
Ituana,
Sun City Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Dolphy,
Lightning Bolt,
Radio Birdman,
Stereo Dub,
Rotary Connection,
Camberwell Now,
Alphaville,
Wally Richardson,
Whodini,
Anakelly,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joe Smooth,
Television,
Ice-T,
The Martian,
Traffic Nightmare,
Amon Düül,
New Order,
Porter Ricks,
Graham Central Station,
Scion,
Gabor Szabo,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.