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 Houston.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Five Americans to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Scrapy,
The Move,
Joe Smooth,
The Modern Lovers,
B.T. Express,
The Associates,
Iggy Pop,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Wells,
Roxette,
The Grass Roots,
Tears for Fears,
Banda Bassotti,
Stereo Dub,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Music Machine,
Blossom Toes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Gun Club,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
This Heat,
Charles Mingus,
Fluxion,
DNA,
Dual Sessions,
Ken Boothe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mary Jane Girls,
The New Christs,
Todd Rundgren,
Terry Callier,
Bobby Sherman,
Dave Gahan,
Pantytec,
Dennis Brown,
CMW,
The Remains,
kango's stein massive,
The Evens,
Robert Görl,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jacques Brel,
the Slits,
Nirvana,
Monolake,
Scott Walker,
Saccharine Trust,
Boredoms,
Outsiders,
Whodini,
Scion,
Basic Channel,
The Skatalites,
Von Mondo,
Ultra Naté,
Jawbox,
Amon Düül,
Kevin Saunderson,
Absolute Body Control,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.