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 Antigua and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 Cameo to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Normal. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Matthew Halsall,
Todd Rundgren,
Ralphi Rosario,
Surgeon,
The Selecter,
Smog,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
H. Thieme,
The Birthday Party,
Eurythmics,
Outsiders,
Godley & Creme,
Isaac Hayes,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
Groovy Waters,
Hoover,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fugs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Urselle,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Machine,
Deepchord,
Slick Rick,
Bauhaus,
Joe Finger,
Pussy Galore,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
a-ha,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Monochrome Set,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roger Hodgson,
Glenn Branca,
Soul Sonic Force,
Whodini,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alphaville,
Glambeats Corp.,
Half Japanese,
The Angels of Light,
John Lydon,
Fluxion,
Pierre Henry,
The Zeros,
Average White Band,
Darondo,
Derrick Morgan,
Sonic Youth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
Janne Schatter,
Bob Dylan,
D'Angelo,
Agitation Free,
Sugar Minott,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.