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 Armenia and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alton Ellis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Visage,
the Sonics,
Absolute Body Control,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
a-ha,
Unrelated Segments,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Cure,
Trumans Water,
Faust,
Au Pairs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fatback Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
JFA,
Black Bananas,
Quantec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Foxx,
Darondo,
The Slits,
Jandek,
The Skatalites,
the Slits,
Groovy Waters,
Q and Not U,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gang of Four,
Amon Düül II,
Soft Machine,
John Lydon,
Simply Red,
The New Christs,
Fat Boys,
Black Pus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Janne Schatter,
Schoolly D,
Jesper Dahlback,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Isaac Hayes,
The Slackers,
These Immortal Souls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sister Nancy,
Severed Heads,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ronan,
The Happenings,
Nils Olav,
Soul II Soul,
Derrick May,
Deakin,
Metal Thangz,
The Grass Roots,
CMW,
Los Fastidios,
Electric Light Orchestra,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.