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 Cape Verde and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Michelle Simonal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bluetip,
the Slits,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Trumans Water,
Q and Not U,
Delta 5,
Radio Birdman,
Drexciya,
The Divine Comedy,
A Certain Ratio,
Nick Fraelich,
Eve St. Jones,
a-ha,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare,
Kas Product,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fela Kuti,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
Amon Düül,
Boz Scaggs,
Basic Channel,
Susan Cadogan,
Lou Christie,
James White and The Blacks,
Swell Maps,
Groovy Waters,
Grey Daturas,
La Düsseldorf,
Ossler,
Crispian St. Peters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Can,
The Residents,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zapp,
The Skatalites,
Henry Cow,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Minor Threat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nirvana,
Minnie Riperton,
Leonard Cohen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
China Crisis,
The Dead C,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
Warsaw,
The Busters,
Theoretical Girls,
Gregory Isaacs,
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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.