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 Guinea and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the jazz 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
David Axelrod,
Tubeway Army,
Todd Rundgren,
Altered Images,
Sparks,
The Happenings,
Godley & Creme,
Sun Ra,
The Young Rascals,
Moebius,
Gong,
Aaron Thompson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Audionom,
Pussy Galore,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
Tears for Fears,
Flamin' Groovies,
Crooked Eye,
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rekid,
Ohio Players,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mojo Men,
Jeru the Damaja,
Stereo Dub,
Half Japanese,
FM Einheit,
June of 44,
The Doobie Brothers,
Michelle Simonal,
Arcadia,
Goldenarms,
Circle Jerks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
H. Thieme,
Infiniti,
Brick,
Index,
Max Romeo,
Liliput,
Faraquet,
Erykah Badu,
Quadrant,
Groovy Waters,
Swell Maps,
The Gap Band,
MDC,
Ituana,
The Angels of Light,
The Monks,
Reagan Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wolf Eyes,
DJ Sneak,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.