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 Brunei and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Warren Ellis to the disco 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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Nick Fraelich,
Susan Cadogan,
Fugazi,
Funky Four + One,
Duran Duran,
Robert Wyatt,
Joy Division,
Neil Young,
Delon & Dalcan,
JFA,
The Pop Group,
Mo-Dettes,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Junior Murvin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Alarm Clocks,
Morten Harket,
Siglo XX,
Saccharine Trust,
LL Cool J,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Durutti Column,
Sun Ra,
Funkadelic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Lydon,
Albert Ayler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Human League,
Marine Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lower 48,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scientists,
Make Up,
Kerri Chandler,
Pussy Galore,
Frankie Knuckles,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Leonard Cohen,
Ten City,
Alphaville,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pylon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The American Breed,
The Doobie Brothers,
Carl Craig,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
Qualms,
Stereo Dub,
Henry Cow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ken Boothe,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.