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 Cuba and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Gun Club to the funk 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Donny Hathaway,
Gregory Isaacs,
Das Ding,
Michelle Simonal,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
Heaven 17,
Marshall Jefferson,
Babytalk,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Model 500,
Nation of Ulysses,
Derrick May,
Groovy Waters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Doors,
Tim Buckley,
Cameo,
Rekid,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Crime,
Cybotron,
Popol Vuh,
Carl Craig,
Main Source,
The Doobie Brothers,
Magazine,
The Victims,
Pagans,
Simply Red,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonic Youth,
Minny Pops,
The Velvet Underground,
Adolescents,
The Alarm Clocks,
Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rosa Yemen,
Cluster,
Reagan Youth,
The Litter,
D'Angelo,
Mission of Burma,
Moby Grape,
Guru Guru,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
The Moody Blues,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Tears for Fears,
Todd Terry,
Pylon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jeff Lynne,
Tommy Roe,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.