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 Mali and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Ralphi Rosario to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Pantytec,
The Litter,
E-Dancer,
Man Parrish,
Mr. Review,
The Cure,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Franke,
Sound Behaviour,
New York Dolls,
Magazine,
The Sonics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fugs,
PIL,
the Swans,
Country Teasers,
Audionom,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Gladiators,
Mantronix,
Hardrive,
The Moleskins,
Judy Mowatt,
Wings,
The Move,
Al Stewart,
Cal Tjader,
Joyce Sims,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Trojans,
the Normal,
Swell Maps,
Model 500,
Von Mondo,
Sugar Minott,
Andrew Hill,
Ludus,
Rapeman,
Bill Wells,
The Monochrome Set,
Porter Ricks,
MC5,
Sonic Youth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Panda Bear,
Crooked Eye,
Rakim,
K-Klass,
The Fortunes,
Susan Cadogan,
The Zeros,
ABC,
The Seeds,
James White and The Blacks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funkadelic,
Deepchord,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.