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 Rwanda and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Judy Mowatt to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nas,
the Swans,
Quantec,
Sonic Youth,
Nico,
MC5,
Motorama,
Lindisfarne,
Soul II Soul,
One Last Wish,
Jacques Brel,
Kerri Chandler,
Donny Hathaway,
Grey Daturas,
8 Eyed Spy,
Chrome,
The Mojo Men,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crash Course in Science,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The United States of America,
Eden Ahbez,
The Music Machine,
Fear,
Gong,
Warren Ellis,
Sun Ra,
CMW,
Aaron Thompson,
The Leaves,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hot Snakes,
The Offenders,
Derrick Morgan,
Sällskapet,
Joey Negro,
Depeche Mode,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
June of 44,
Sarah Menescal,
Tubeway Army,
Q65,
Amon Düül,
Slave,
The Star Department,
Half Japanese,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jacob Miller,
The Invisible,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter and Kerry,
The Grass Roots,
Ralphi Rosario,
Monolake,
Von Mondo,
Audionom,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Duran Duran,
Roy Ayers,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.