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 Japan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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. Jay Z And Juelz to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
The Moody Blues,
Dawn Penn,
Morten Harket,
Lalann,
DJ Sneak,
The Offenders,
Absolute Body Control,
Reuben Wilson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Star Department,
Pagans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pierre Henry,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Organ,
Johnny Clarke,
Tim Buckley,
Danielle Patucci,
The Residents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Magma,
The Move,
D'Angelo,
Vladislav Delay,
Junior Murvin,
OOIOO,
Babytalk,
Gerry Rafferty,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Sex Pistols,
Dead Boys,
The Neon Judgement,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Standells,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Toni Rubio,
Amon Düül,
Chrome,
Shuggie Otis,
Marmalade,
Yusef Lateef,
Flipper,
Reagan Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Donny Hathaway,
cv313,
Accadde A,
Radio Birdman,
Slave,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dorothy Ashby,
The New Christs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.