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 San Marino and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kas Product to the rock 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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
Technova,
Todd Rundgren,
Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
Moby Grape,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Symarip,
Adolescents,
kango's stein massive,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Angry Samoans,
Lalann,
Gang Gang Dance,
In Retrospect,
Grauzone,
Animal Collective,
Sarah Menescal,
Lungfish,
Mark Hollis,
Vainqueur,
FM Einheit,
The Moleskins,
Lucky Dragons,
Bill Near,
B.T. Express,
Quadrant,
The Victims,
Skaos,
Porter Ricks,
Rufus Thomas,
Avey Tare,
David Bowie,
The Shadows of Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultra Naté,
Scion,
cv313,
Marmalade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Panda Bear,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David McCallum,
Intrusion,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
E-Dancer,
Dead Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Letta Mbulu,
Wolf Eyes,
Bad Manners,
The Blues Magoos,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Sheep,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Sonics,
Lou Reed,
Hoover,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.