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 Kosovo and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet 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 Dennis Brown to the rap 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Albert Ayler,
Gang Green,
The Fuzztones,
Rapeman,
Lalann,
The Knickerbockers,
Los Fastidios,
Porter Ricks,
Fela Kuti,
Maurizio,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gap Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Scion,
Deakin,
Lower 48,
Boz Scaggs,
Bill Wells,
Tropical Tobacco,
Y Pants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Rundgren,
Sam Rivers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crime,
Marmalade,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dave Gahan,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cowsills,
Cal Tjader,
Fluxion,
Judy Mowatt,
Malaria!,
Black Flag,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gories,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
CMW,
Girls At Our Best!,
DNA,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eric Dolphy,
Jandek,
New York Dolls,
Monks,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hasil Adkins,
Byron Stingily,
LL Cool J,
Eden Ahbez,
Q and Not U,
The Tremeloes,
Mark Hollis,
Electric Prunes,
The Misunderstood,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Main Source,
Negative Approach,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.