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 Chile and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the grunge 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Matthew Halsall,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Gladiators,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
kango's stein massive,
Radiohead,
Los Fastidios,
The Cramps,
Mark Hollis,
Rakim,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Clear Light,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Half Japanese,
Massinfluence,
Kerrie Biddell,
Stiv Bators,
Anakelly,
This Heat,
Mo-Dettes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
World's Most,
Harmonia,
The Buckinghams,
Minnie Riperton,
Pet Shop Boys,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Easy Going,
Cal Tjader,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brass Construction,
the Sonics,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kenny Larkin,
Mr. Review,
Jandek,
Ponytail,
Eric Copeland,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric Dolphy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
June of 44,
The Evens,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Flag,
Theoretical Girls,
Negative Approach,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry's Kids,
Blossom Toes,
The Gories,
Kas Product,
CMW,
The Tremeloes,
Ultravox,
Franke,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.