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 Mexico and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Deepchord to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Skaos,
Sparks,
Audionom,
Anthony Braxton,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Das Ding,
Joy Division,
Heaven 17,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bang On A Can,
Dawn Penn,
Bluetip,
Wolf Eyes,
Pantaleimon,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Rundgren,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Parry Music,
Steve Hackett,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Susan Cadogan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dark Day,
Lucky Dragons,
Idris Muhammad,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Wyatt,
Echospace,
Television Personalities,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Carl Craig,
Guru Guru,
JFA,
Sexual Harrassment,
Matthew Halsall,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Machine,
Lindisfarne,
Magazine,
Motorama,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rekid,
Flamin' Groovies,
Davy DMX,
The Electric Prunes,
Blancmange,
Bobby Sherman,
Young Marble Giants,
Aaron Thompson,
The Offenders,
the Germs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Bar-Kays,
Marc Almond,
Goldenarms,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.