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 Germany and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Gang Starr to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harry Pussy,
Prince Buster,
kango's stein massive,
The Young Rascals,
The Fire Engines,
Aaron Thompson,
Deepchord,
Q65,
The Standells,
Das Ding,
Saccharine Trust,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wasted Youth,
The Smiths,
Ituana,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra,
Moebius,
Youth Brigade,
Yaz,
Cal Tjader,
KRS-One,
Harpers Bizarre,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
the Association,
Excepter,
Audionom,
David Axelrod,
New Age Steppers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Japan,
The Barracudas,
The Fortunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
Thee Headcoats,
Charles Mingus,
Godley & Creme,
Terry Callier,
Pierre Henry,
The Walker Brothers,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
The American Breed,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ice-T,
Flash Fearless,
Subhumans,
Barbara Tucker,
H. Thieme,
Delta 5,
Severed Heads,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thompson Twins,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.