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 Angola and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Misunderstood to the disco 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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Fortunes,
Eurythmics,
Stereo Dub,
Isaac Hayes,
Aswad,
Agitation Free,
Underground Resistance,
The Seeds,
Harmonia,
Easy Going,
Nas,
Qualms,
Vainqueur,
Talk Talk,
Lebanon Hanover,
Swell Maps,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marc Almond,
The Young Rascals,
One Last Wish,
Jeff Lynne,
Banda Bassotti,
Dead Boys,
Groovy Waters,
Reuben Wilson,
Rosa Yemen,
Tommy Roe,
Nils Olav,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ken Boothe,
Juan Atkins,
Davy DMX,
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
Circle Jerks,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Cowsills,
Pere Ubu,
New York Dolls,
Joe Finger,
Von Mondo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Unwound,
The Count Five,
Wally Richardson,
Procol Harum,
Kayak,
Patti Smith,
Excepter,
Fad Gadget,
Jandek,
Fluxion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ludus,
Deepchord,
Warren Ellis,
The Gories,
Marine Girls,
Grauzone,
Ituana,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.