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 Serbia and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Todd Rundgren to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a B.T. Express record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Deepchord,
Freddie Wadling,
Babytalk,
Minnie Riperton,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pantytec,
the Germs,
Yazoo,
Byron Stingily,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Echospace,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
Chris & Cosey,
The Martian,
Magazine,
The Stooges,
The Moleskins,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Terry Callier,
Hot Snakes,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bill Wells,
Little Man,
Wolf Eyes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lungfish,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Angry Samoans,
Neil Young,
Yaz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Swell Maps,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sonics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bill Near,
Alison Limerick,
Nirvana,
The Human League,
Kurtis Blow,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joyce Sims,
The Monks,
T.S.O.L.,
Warren Ellis,
Amon Düül II,
DJ Style,
Glenn Branca,
The Doobie Brothers,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.