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 Taiwan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 ABBA to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Sonic Youth,
Robert Hood,
The Toasters,
Matthew Halsall,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eve St. Jones,
The Doors,
Brand Nubian,
The Music Machine,
The Fugs,
Bootsy Collins,
Zapp,
The Index,
Clear Light,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joey Negro,
The Slackers,
the Soft Cell,
Deepchord,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stereo Dub,
Jawbox,
Robert Wyatt,
Flash Fearless,
Outsiders,
Albert Ayler,
Joe Smooth,
Darondo,
Lindisfarne,
Nas,
Pantytec,
Eric Dolphy,
Pagans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Normal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Motions,
X-101,
X-102,
Q and Not U,
Sex Pistols,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DJ Sneak,
Half Japanese,
Sonny Sharrock,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Peter & Gordon,
Organ,
Glenn Branca,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Grass Roots,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Near,
Kenny Larkin,
Arab on Radar,
The Barracudas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.