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 Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Malaria! to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lalann,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Parry Music,
the Slits,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scratch Acid,
Barrington Levy,
The Cure,
Blossom Toes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Alison Limerick,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Cale,
Das Ding,
Neil Young,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ken Boothe,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Sneak,
Ohio Players,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Warren Ellis,
Faraquet,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Archie Shepp,
The Raincoats,
Angry Samoans,
Rotary Connection,
The Gories,
Erykah Badu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fugazi,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crime,
Lower 48,
Organ,
Rod Modell,
Andrew Hill,
Ralphi Rosario,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aloha Tigers,
Ponytail,
Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Fort Wilson Riot,
D'Angelo,
Byron Stingily,
Infiniti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fluxion,
Public Enemy,
Minny Pops,
Scion,
Zapp,
R.M.O.,
Ice-T,
Roger Hodgson,
Cybotron,
Inner City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.