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 Slovenia and from Madrid.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rotary Connection to the disco 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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Lalann,
The Fire Engines,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Newcleus,
Marine Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
Essential Logic,
the Human League,
Vladislav Delay,
Isaac Hayes,
Sparks,
Jacob Miller,
Junior Murvin,
Bobby Womack,
John Lydon,
Silicon Teens,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Gap Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Maurizio,
Magazine,
Minutemen,
Lungfish,
David Bowie,
Barrington Levy,
The Cramps,
The Moody Blues,
Rhythm & Sound,
10cc,
the Association,
Derrick Morgan,
Malaria!,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Move,
Urselle,
Lebanon Hanover,
Freddie Wadling,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fat Boys,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eddi Front,
Deadbeat,
The Dead C,
Mantronix,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Danielle Patucci,
Sister Nancy,
Drexciya,
X-Ray Spex,
Pantaleimon,
This Heat,
Hasil Adkins,
Animal Collective,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.