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 Belarus and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Ossler to the rock 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Todd Terry,
Motorama,
Graham Central Station,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Au Pairs,
FM Einheit,
Whodini,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cheater Slicks,
The Durutti Column,
Depeche Mode,
The Music Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Godley & Creme,
T. Rex,
Agent Orange,
Rites of Spring,
MDC,
the Germs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Panda Bear,
Brothers Johnson,
Visage,
Donny Hathaway,
Moby Grape,
Chrome,
Morten Harket,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hot Snakes,
Arab on Radar,
T.S.O.L.,
Eli Mardock,
Anthony Braxton,
Mr. Review,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Seeds,
The Invisible,
Steve Hackett,
Glenn Branca,
Pole,
Urselle,
Bob Dylan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Slave,
Magma,
Toni Rubio,
Black Moon,
Gichy Dan,
Oblivians,
June of 44,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobby Womack,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.