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 Ireland and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Dark Day to the funk 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
The Count Five,
These Immortal Souls,
Pantaleimon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Görl,
Ituana,
Tubeway Army,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Blackbyrds,
JFA,
Soul II Soul,
James White and The Blacks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
FM Einheit,
Yusef Lateef,
The Divine Comedy,
Little Man,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wings,
Los Fastidios,
In Retrospect,
Cecil Taylor,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Residents,
Lyres,
Deepchord,
Roger Hodgson,
Brass Construction,
Marcia Griffiths,
Babytalk,
Boogie Down Productions,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Q and Not U,
Television,
Parry Music,
Dark Day,
Hasil Adkins,
Black Moon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Al Stewart,
Barrington Levy,
Grey Daturas,
Clear Light,
Amon Düül II,
The American Breed,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
H. Thieme,
Saccharine Trust,
Quadrant,
Nick Fraelich,
Organ,
The Kinks,
E-Dancer,
Public Enemy,
Unrelated Segments,
Wolf Eyes,
Inner City,
The Golliwogs,
Fad Gadget,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.