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 Portugal and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Easy Going to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Trojans. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
AZ,
The Busters,
Scan 7,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crooked Eye,
In Retrospect,
Reuben Wilson,
Negative Approach,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tim Buckley,
The Dirtbombs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Average White Band,
Youth Brigade,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
New Age Steppers,
Camberwell Now,
The Gories,
Black Pus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
H. Thieme,
Excepter,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
F. McDonald,
The Durutti Column,
Smog,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Second Layer,
Charles Mingus,
Oneida,
ABC,
Harry Pussy,
Livin' Joy,
The Mummies,
The Count Five,
Minutemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gladiators,
Aural Exciters,
Lyres,
Neil Young,
Guru Guru,
Man Parrish,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rekid,
Ornette Coleman,
Throbbing Gristle,
One Last Wish,
Eve St. Jones,
Jacques Brel,
Blake Baxter,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cramps,
Skarface,
Cameo,
Loose Ends,
John Cale,
Arcadia,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.