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 Vanuatu and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jacques Brel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Slave,
AZ,
EPMD,
John Lydon,
The Music Machine,
Infiniti,
Silicon Teens,
The Star Department,
Rekid,
The Black Dice,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
T.S.O.L.,
Skaos,
Quando Quango,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chrome,
R.M.O.,
John Cale,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool Moe Dee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
ABC,
Bob Dylan,
the Human League,
Sex Pistols,
Lungfish,
Magma,
Radio Birdman,
The Dead C,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
The Detroit Cobras,
David Bowie,
Country Joe & The Fish,
cv313,
Curtis Mayfield,
Maleditus Sound,
Von Mondo,
Jandek,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deepchord,
Don Cherry,
Janne Schatter,
Minnie Riperton,
Stetsasonic,
Barbara Tucker,
Tim Buckley,
Stiv Bators,
Hardrive,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Blackbyrds,
Boredoms,
Anthony Braxton,
Los Fastidios,
the Association,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.