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 Uganda and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the jazz 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Q and Not U,
Camouflage,
Pulsallama,
Rekid,
Lindisfarne,
Interpol,
Andrew Hill,
John Cale,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Amon Düül II,
The Offenders,
Monks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
Gabor Szabo,
The Zeros,
R.M.O.,
Wally Richardson,
Outsiders,
Sam Rivers,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Monochrome Set,
The Moody Blues,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Section 25,
LL Cool J,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sandy B,
Alice Coltrane,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Subhumans,
Tommy Roe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
James White and The Blacks,
The Invisible,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
H. Thieme,
Kevin Saunderson,
K-Klass,
Desert Stars,
The Index,
Marmalade,
David McCallum,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Robert Hood,
Bill Wells,
The Kinks,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Vogues,
Terrestrial Tones,
Malaria!,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
The Mojo Men,
Index,
Flash Fearless,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.