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 Panama and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Procol Harum to the grime 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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Vladislav Delay,
Delta 5,
Roger Hodgson,
Agent Orange,
The Seeds,
Sixth Finger,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Barracudas,
Eric Dolphy,
Aural Exciters,
Soul II Soul,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flamin' Groovies,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Toni Rubio,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Girls At Our Best!,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sight & Sound,
Joe Finger,
Judy Mowatt,
Althea and Donna,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Sherman,
Motorama,
FM Einheit,
Ultravox,
Au Pairs,
Ornette Coleman,
Don Cherry,
The Smiths,
The Fuzztones,
Kaleidoscope,
The Index,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Stooges,
Television,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Birthday Party,
Y Pants,
Piero Umiliani,
Pere Ubu,
Intrusion,
Rakim,
Basic Channel,
Skriet,
Kerri Chandler,
Stetsasonic,
Gabor Szabo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sparks,
China Crisis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erykah Badu,
The Five Americans,
The Vogues,
Lucky Dragons,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.