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 Uruguay and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pylon to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Al Stewart,
Isaac Hayes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Urselle,
Cal Tjader,
Fear,
Con Funk Shun,
The Divine Comedy,
Alison Limerick,
The Vogues,
Unwound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ornette Coleman,
The Techniques,
Morten Harket,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
B.T. Express,
The Motions,
Lightning Bolt,
Bluetip,
Adolescents,
Bob Dylan,
E-Dancer,
Trumans Water,
Camouflage,
Agitation Free,
Reuben Wilson,
Kerri Chandler,
Anthony Braxton,
Barry Ungar,
Tom Boy,
Albert Ayler,
the Slits,
DNA,
Joyce Sims,
Danielle Patucci,
Schoolly D,
Marine Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Roxy Music,
This Heat,
Kurtis Blow,
Crispian St. Peters,
DJ Sneak,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Moody Blues,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Smog,
Y Pants,
Malaria!,
Todd Terry,
Black Sheep,
Stiv Bators,
Desert Stars,
Tropical Tobacco,
Tomorrow,
Ultra Naté,
DJ Style,
Quando Quango,
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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.
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