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 Dominica and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar 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 Siglo XX to the disco 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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad 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?
Adolescents,
The Mummies,
The Doors,
Theoretical Girls,
Fatback Band,
The Cramps,
Electric Prunes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Can,
Ohio Players,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Warren Ellis,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Danielle Patucci,
Vladislav Delay,
Yellowson,
David Axelrod,
48th St. Collective,
AZ,
FM Einheit,
Section 25,
The Modern Lovers,
Ossler,
David Bowie,
Davy DMX,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Fall,
The Motions,
Babytalk,
Wings,
Man Parrish,
Clear Light,
Minutemen,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ludus,
Swell Maps,
Quando Quango,
Piero Umiliani,
Eden Ahbez,
Symarip,
The Seeds,
These Immortal Souls,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wire,
10cc,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Associates,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delta 5,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Busters,
Lungfish,
Infiniti,
Lee Hazlewood,
U.S. Maple,
Junior Murvin,
Pulsallama,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.