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 Micronesia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scrapy to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DJ Style,
Jandek,
Television Personalities,
The Dave Clark Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rakim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roxette,
JFA,
Morten Harket,
Oblivians,
New York Dolls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gong,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cybotron,
Toni Rubio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Patti Smith,
The Monks,
R.M.O.,
Ultra Naté,
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Tremeloes,
Matthew Bourne,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grey Daturas,
Moss Icon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
David McCallum,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Dirtbombs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Whodini,
Faraquet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Derrick Morgan,
Amon Düül II,
Cheater Slicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scratch Acid,
Infiniti,
Erykah Badu,
Camberwell Now,
Ludus,
Blossom Toes,
June of 44,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.