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 Mozambique and from Mumbai.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 spring reverb 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 Roxy Music to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joyce Sims,
The Real Kids,
The Cowsills,
Vainqueur,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Au Pairs,
Robert Görl,
Arcadia,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fluxion,
Connie Case,
The Trojans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hot Snakes,
Blancmange,
Bob Dylan,
The Blackbyrds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Con Funk Shun,
Thee Headcoats,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Fire Engines,
Flipper,
The Offenders,
The Moody Blues,
Sister Nancy,
ABC,
Ken Boothe,
Johnny Clarke,
Alton Ellis,
F. McDonald,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mojo Men,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Groovy Waters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Deepchord,
Funky Four + One,
Andrew Hill,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eddi Front,
Tom Boy,
Erykah Badu,
Derrick Morgan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pantytec,
Tim Buckley,
Sonic Youth,
Camouflage,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Blake Baxter,
The Birthday Party,
Anakelly,
Jandek,
The Move,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Star Department,
David Axelrod,
K-Klass,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.