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 Ethiopia 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slave to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
The Fugs,
Cecil Taylor,
The Dirtbombs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Raincoats,
Derrick Morgan,
Ice-T,
Lindisfarne,
Yusef Lateef,
Piero Umiliani,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Soft Cell,
The Doors,
Intrusion,
Quantec,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rufus Thomas,
Alphaville,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mad Mike,
Talk Talk,
Jandek,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
Main Source,
Donald Byrd,
Organ,
Brand Nubian,
The Stooges,
The Invisible,
Aural Exciters,
Junior Murvin,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sex Pistols,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nas,
Sarah Menescal,
The Standells,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
Boredoms,
Tim Buckley,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gap Band,
Magma,
Dennis Brown,
Symarip,
Alison Limerick,
Siglo XX,
Alice Coltrane,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Sonics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bobby Womack,
Sonic Youth,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.