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 Mali and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Tokyo and Salvador.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Swell Maps to the rap 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Skriet,
R.M.O.,
The Dead C,
Avey Tare,
Bootsy Collins,
KRS-One,
Goldenarms,
Niagra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liliput,
Hashim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dave Gahan,
Jandek,
Danielle Patucci,
The Evens,
Dawn Penn,
Glenn Branca,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Victims,
Massinfluence,
Clear Light,
Porter Ricks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Hood,
Junior Murvin,
Erasure,
cv313,
Accadde A,
Eurythmics,
OOIOO,
Procol Harum,
EPMD,
Nico,
The Raincoats,
Visage,
JFA,
Peter & Gordon,
Jacques Brel,
Spoonie Gee,
Agitation Free,
The Durutti Column,
The Detroit Cobras,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Todd Rundgren,
Scott Walker,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Michelle Simonal,
Talk Talk,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Smiths,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fugs,
Marmalade,
The American Breed,
Organ,
Lungfish,
Excepter,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Lydon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.