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 Serbia and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lou Christie to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Althea and Donna,
Sugar Minott,
Lou Reed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Los Fastidios,
Eden Ahbez,
Schoolly D,
Thompson Twins,
The Remains,
Lucky Dragons,
Pussy Galore,
Hardrive,
MDC,
The Offenders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scott Walker,
Pere Ubu,
The Beau Brummels,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Fear,
Bobby Sherman,
Smog,
David McCallum,
Joey Negro,
Inner City,
Bobby Byrd,
Curtis Mayfield,
Newcleus,
H. Thieme,
Mark Hollis,
David Axelrod,
Ice-T,
Bobby Womack,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Japan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Absolute Body Control,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Parry Music,
Lyres,
Henry Cow,
The Buckinghams,
Heaven 17,
The Vogues,
The Slackers,
Franke,
CMW,
David Bowie,
Soft Machine,
Steve Hackett,
Icehouse,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bang On A Can,
Idris Muhammad,
The Techniques,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.