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 Luxembourg and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Visage to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Fall,
Adolescents,
Tres Demented,
Sonic Youth,
Von Mondo,
Slick Rick,
Lightning Bolt,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sixth Finger,
Michelle Simonal,
Shoche,
Eve St. Jones,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultra Naté,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ohio Players,
Porter Ricks,
Easy Going,
X-101,
Oblivians,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nico,
D'Angelo,
Spandau Ballet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Warren Ellis,
Yusef Lateef,
the Sonics,
The Standells,
Barrington Levy,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
The Index,
Theoretical Girls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Isaac Hayes,
Scrapy,
These Immortal Souls,
New Order,
Man Parrish,
Suicide,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cal Tjader,
The Knickerbockers,
The Residents,
Robert Hood,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Vladislav Delay,
Average White Band,
Lyres,
Pantytec,
Black Flag,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Amon Düül,
Siglo XX,
Bluetip,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.