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 United Kingdom and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Isaac Hayes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Wolf Eyes,
CMW,
Marine Girls,
Stetsasonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nils Olav,
Ultravox,
R.M.O.,
Khruangbin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
JFA,
The Dead C,
Barbara Tucker,
Stiv Bators,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radiohead,
Porter Ricks,
Nico,
Lindisfarne,
Mark Hollis,
Aaron Thompson,
10cc,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aural Exciters,
Gang Green,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gichy Dan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Goldenarms,
the Bar-Kays,
B.T. Express,
The Music Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pet Shop Boys,
The United States of America,
Sun City Girls,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Young Rascals,
Spoonie Gee,
Sparks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Connie Case,
Motorama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Delta 5,
Sugar Minott,
The Star Department,
Sam Rivers,
Underground Resistance,
Peter & Gordon,
Joey Negro,
The Fugs,
Symarip,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.