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 Sierra Leone and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Robert Wyatt to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
Toni Rubio,
Agent Orange,
Symarip,
Sun Ra,
Brick,
Glenn Branca,
the Human League,
Cybotron,
Severed Heads,
Ken Boothe,
Youth Brigade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Popol Vuh,
Charles Mingus,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eve St. Jones,
Hoover,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
These Immortal Souls,
Roy Ayers,
Circle Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill,
Aloha Tigers,
The Durutti Column,
The Associates,
Josef K,
Matthew Halsall,
The Vogues,
Blossom Toes,
CMW,
Saccharine Trust,
Shoche,
Lee Hazlewood,
Stiv Bators,
Marc Almond,
Mary Jane Girls,
Suicide,
Freddie Wadling,
The Velvet Underground,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Index,
Grey Daturas,
Al Stewart,
Mo-Dettes,
Maurizio,
Johnny Clarke,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Music Machine,
David Bowie,
T. Rex,
Sonic Youth,
Cheater Slicks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mr. Review,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.