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 Bhutan and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet 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 Warren Ellis to the funk 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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Juan Atkins,
The Vogues,
The Fuzztones,
Dave Gahan,
Arcadia,
MC5,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Crime,
Khruangbin,
Janne Schatter,
Moebius,
Rotary Connection,
Ituana,
Hashim,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Association,
Goldenarms,
Pylon,
The Toasters,
The Gun Club,
Zapp,
Scratch Acid,
The Pretty Things,
Shuggie Otis,
Desert Stars,
Don Cherry,
The Move,
Country Teasers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Warren Ellis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yusef Lateef,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pussy Galore,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
B.T. Express,
Tres Demented,
Isaac Hayes,
Brand Nubian,
The Sound,
Lou Christie,
Kevin Saunderson,
Freddie Wadling,
Radiopuhelimet,
Electric Prunes,
Heaven 17,
Sarah Menescal,
The Seeds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Raincoats,
Mark Hollis,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.