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 Turkey and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fall,
Altered Images,
June of 44,
The Barracudas,
Goldenarms,
Alphaville,
Cybotron,
Q65,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Last Poets,
Ten City,
Gang Starr,
KRS-One,
David Bowie,
MDC,
Pulsallama,
Junior Murvin,
Amon Düül II,
Janne Schatter,
Prince Buster,
The Walker Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
Iggy Pop,
Young Marble Giants,
Roger Hodgson,
Faraquet,
Roy Ayers,
Crash Course in Science,
Sällskapet,
Tomorrow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
China Crisis,
David Axelrod,
Grauzone,
Von Mondo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Warren Ellis,
Ornette Coleman,
Rites of Spring,
Archie Shepp,
Funky Four + One,
The Searchers,
Jerry's Kids,
Harmonia,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oneida,
Sun City Girls,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Womack,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rotary Connection,
Sarah Menescal,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Qualms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angry Samoans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Model 500,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonny Sharrock,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.