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 Jamaica and from Spokane.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Eric Dolphy to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
CMW,
Radiohead,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Real Kids,
Bush Tetras,
The Divine Comedy,
Andrew Hill,
Alison Limerick,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pylon,
The Misunderstood,
Mantronix,
Davy DMX,
Bill Near,
Stereo Dub,
Siglo XX,
Darondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Modern Lovers,
Oblivians,
World's Most,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Second Layer,
The Blues Magoos,
The Dead C,
The Cowsills,
Guru Guru,
David McCallum,
Black Pus,
Warsaw,
Make Up,
The Sound,
John Cale,
Ossler,
The Wake,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sugar Minott,
The Evens,
Robert Hood,
Gang Starr,
Radio Birdman,
Spoonie Gee,
Leonard Cohen,
Joyce Sims,
Subhumans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arthur Verocai,
Alice Coltrane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wasted Youth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roy Ayers,
Niagra,
Moebius,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Main Source,
The Dirtbombs,
The Sonics,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.