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 Spain and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Drive Like Jehu to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Maurizio,
The Golliwogs,
Wolf Eyes,
Davy DMX,
It's A Beautiful Day,
ABC,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Con Funk Shun,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Prince Buster,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Searchers,
Sonic Youth,
Flipper,
Peter & Gordon,
EPMD,
Goldenarms,
Bad Manners,
The Slackers,
DJ Style,
Boredoms,
Bobby Womack,
Scientists,
David Axelrod,
Erykah Badu,
New York Dolls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
David McCallum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Tremeloes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yusef Lateef,
John Foxx,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ponytail,
Yaz,
The Music Machine,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Graham Central Station,
Dave Gahan,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
The Standells,
Rapeman,
Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Skriet,
Basic Channel,
Terrestrial Tones,
Little Man,
Panda Bear,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Bar-Kays,
The Selecter,
John Coltrane,
Zero Boys,
Josef K,
Hasil Adkins,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.