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 Cuba and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Detroit Cobras to the grime 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lebanon Hanover,
B.T. Express,
Ten City,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Sneak,
Ohio Players,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Cale,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eve St. Jones,
Matthew Bourne,
Monolake,
Pantytec,
The Leaves,
The Gladiators,
The Cowsills,
Public Image Ltd.,
Blossom Toes,
The Beau Brummels,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chrome,
T.S.O.L.,
X-Ray Spex,
New Age Steppers,
Faraquet,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Todd Terry,
Henry Cow,
AZ,
The American Breed,
Black Flag,
The Mojo Men,
Cecil Taylor,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Michelle Simonal,
Stiv Bators,
Excepter,
Skriet,
MDC,
Leonard Cohen,
The Flesh Eaters,
Johnny Clarke,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Silicon Teens,
David McCallum,
Yaz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Red Krayola,
Kurtis Blow,
Anakelly,
Archie Shepp,
Vladislav Delay,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.