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 Norway and from Manchester.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Stetsasonic to the disco 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Scrapy,
Amon Düül II,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Cymande,
Iggy Pop,
Echospace,
Crooked Eye,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chris & Cosey,
Gong,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fuzztones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dirtbombs,
Absolute Body Control,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Infiniti,
Make Up,
Kaleidoscope,
John Holt,
The Sound,
The Invisible,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
In Retrospect,
Wire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Wake,
Beasts of Bourbon,
X-101,
Joey Negro,
Sight & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Tres Demented,
David McCallum,
Brass Construction,
Reuben Wilson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
10cc,
Radio Birdman,
Groovy Waters,
H. Thieme,
Michelle Simonal,
Swans,
The Slackers,
Jeff Mills,
Camouflage,
The Toasters,
JFA,
The Offenders,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scientists,
Faraquet,
L. Decosne,
The Moleskins,
Talk Talk,
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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.
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.