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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Qualms to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
The Young Rascals,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bauhaus,
Eric Dolphy,
D'Angelo,
Derrick Morgan,
The Busters,
John Foxx,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
Q65,
Cymande,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
Moebius,
Average White Band,
Nas,
Tomorrow,
EPMD,
LL Cool J,
Cabaret Voltaire,
48th St. Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Wyatt,
The Standells,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brothers Johnson,
Yaz,
Matthew Bourne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Blossom Toes,
Reagan Youth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minny Pops,
Silicon Teens,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Motorama,
Cheater Slicks,
Ronnie Foster,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
The Sound,
Black Moon,
The Walker Brothers,
The Wake,
The Invisible,
Susan Cadogan,
Japan,
The Velvet Underground,
X-101,
Intrusion,
Big Daddy Kane,
Skriet,
DJ Style,
The New Christs,
Iggy Pop,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.