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 Namibia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Zero Boys to the grime 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Danielle Patucci,
Magazine,
Zero Boys,
Byron Stingily,
The Doors,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gories,
Harmonia,
Ten City,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Todd Terry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pere Ubu,
T.S.O.L.,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cal Tjader,
Kerrie Biddell,
Letta Mbulu,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
Y Pants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dennis Brown,
Icehouse,
Minor Threat,
The Skatalites,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
New York Dolls,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Coltrane,
Silicon Teens,
Mandrill,
Q65,
KRS-One,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rekid,
Andrew Hill,
Sixth Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Blues Magoos,
The Index,
Albert Ayler,
Marvin Gaye,
Television Personalities,
Moebius,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eli Mardock,
June of 44,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Names,
Delon & Dalcan,
Leonard Cohen,
Skarface,
Bang On A Can,
Roger Hodgson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.