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 Austria and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Stockholm and Jakarta.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Coltrane to the rap 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
U.S. Maple,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mission of Burma,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kenny Larkin,
The Knickerbockers,
Symarip,
Lightning Bolt,
Kurtis Blow,
The Techniques,
Wally Richardson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bush Tetras,
Steve Hackett,
The Red Krayola,
Joey Negro,
Juan Atkins,
Bad Manners,
The Modern Lovers,
Marc Almond,
Amon Düül,
Zapp,
Can,
Morten Harket,
the Slits,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zero Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pagans,
Quando Quango,
DJ Sneak,
Isaac Hayes,
Matthew Bourne,
Gong,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sister Nancy,
Kerri Chandler,
Hardrive,
Jeff Lynne,
Robert Wyatt,
Pantaleimon,
Animal Collective,
This Heat,
Buzzcocks,
X-102,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Divine Comedy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jeru the Damaja,
Unwound,
Arab on Radar,
Graham Central Station,
Bootsy Collins,
The Standells,
The Smoke,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.