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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Wasted Youth,
Lower 48,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Remains,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fortunes,
La Düsseldorf,
Swans,
Warren Ellis,
Janne Schatter,
Rosa Yemen,
Gil Scott Heron,
Donny Hathaway,
Toni Rubio,
Arab on Radar,
The Misunderstood,
Chris & Cosey,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Beau Brummels,
Nas,
Cluster,
Sixth Finger,
Man Eating Sloth,
Robert Wyatt,
Bill Wells,
The Techniques,
ABC,
Visage,
Dual Sessions,
MDC,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Monochrome Set,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Bananas,
Scrapy,
Ronan,
T. Rex,
Pole,
Scott Walker,
The Count Five,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Anthony Braxton,
Marcia Griffiths,
Unrelated Segments,
Todd Terry,
Interpol,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bobby Sherman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Donald Byrd,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Subhumans,
Q and Not U,
Can,
World's Most,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.