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 San Marino and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Happenings to the punk 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fortunes,
Ken Boothe,
cv313,
Country Teasers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
The Misunderstood,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cure,
Sight & Sound,
Television,
Pharoah Sanders,
10cc,
The Gun Club,
John Holt,
H. Thieme,
Brothers Johnson,
Panda Bear,
Symarip,
Michelle Simonal,
Camberwell Now,
Blossom Toes,
Charles Mingus,
Gil Scott Heron,
June of 44,
Stereo Dub,
Sun Ra,
One Last Wish,
Jacob Miller,
Angry Samoans,
Wasted Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pierre Henry,
Bobby Womack,
New Order,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rekid,
Black Flag,
Khruangbin,
Don Cherry,
The Five Americans,
Bluetip,
Gong,
The Pop Group,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Theoretical Girls,
The Count Five,
Heaven 17,
The Blackbyrds,
Mandrill,
Yaz,
R.M.O.,
Black Pus,
Pagans,
Yusef Lateef,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.