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 France and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 New Order to the grime 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
Freddie Wadling,
Lakeside,
Barclay James Harvest,
OOIOO,
Negative Approach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ponytail,
Nils Olav,
Kayak,
The Shadows of Knight,
Magma,
Skaos,
The Doors,
New Age Steppers,
Stetsasonic,
Roxette,
The Leaves,
Bill Near,
Technova,
Los Fastidios,
EPMD,
Babytalk,
Jandek,
Eric Copeland,
Siglo XX,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Harpers Bizarre,
John Cale,
Massinfluence,
Agitation Free,
Marcia Griffiths,
Drexciya,
Funkadelic,
Visage,
Rufus Thomas,
Soft Machine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ralphi Rosario,
The American Breed,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Sonics,
Eve St. Jones,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Moleskins,
Chris Corsano,
Prince Buster,
Harry Pussy,
Josef K,
Television,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
The Fugs,
Fear,
The Motions,
Anakelly,
Second Layer,
Nick Fraelich,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.