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 Guatemala and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar 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 Kaleidoscope to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Banda Bassotti,
The Fall,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Halsall,
The Stooges,
The Sonics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lucky Dragons,
Carl Craig,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Echospace,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Amon Düül,
Organ,
Cameo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hashim,
These Immortal Souls,
The Beau Brummels,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Deadbeat,
Stetsasonic,
The Residents,
Icehouse,
Juan Atkins,
La Düsseldorf,
Mark Hollis,
Kenny Larkin,
Nas,
the Soft Cell,
Ice-T,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jacques Brel,
Pagans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Associates,
Rakim,
Basic Channel,
Pantytec,
Masters at Work,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hoover,
Duran Duran,
The Golliwogs,
The Cramps,
The J.B.'s,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ultra Naté,
China Crisis,
The Motions,
Jacob Miller,
CMW,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
The Evens,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.