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 Syria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Stooges,
Howard Jones,
Fat Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
June of 44,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marine Girls,
Oneida,
Matthew Halsall,
MDC,
Susan Cadogan,
The Motions,
Vladislav Delay,
Dark Day,
Bad Manners,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Residents,
Malaria!,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Moon,
Robert Hood,
Albert Ayler,
Gabor Szabo,
Scratch Acid,
Inner City,
The Tremeloes,
This Heat,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Golliwogs,
Swell Maps,
The Slackers,
Slick Rick,
The Mummies,
Groovy Waters,
The Music Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Television Personalities,
Wire,
Gong,
John Holt,
DJ Style,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Red Krayola,
John Coltrane,
Kas Product,
Aswad,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Misunderstood,
Sarah Menescal,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Janne Schatter,
Mad Mike,
Rosa Yemen,
Curtis Mayfield,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.