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 Israel and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Niagra to the funk 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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Soulsonic Force,
Aswad,
Eve St. Jones,
Outsiders,
Warsaw,
Anthony Braxton,
Altered Images,
Scion,
Pussy Galore,
Intrusion,
The Fuzztones,
The Tremeloes,
Black Flag,
The Buckinghams,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Supertramp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Livin' Joy,
Yaz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Cure,
Kool Moe Dee,
New Order,
Theoretical Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Reuben Wilson,
Yellowson,
Franke,
The Saints,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pole,
Fela Kuti,
Grauzone,
Kas Product,
Deadbeat,
The Knickerbockers,
T.S.O.L.,
Country Teasers,
The Durutti Column,
Eric Copeland,
Judy Mowatt,
ABC,
Lyres,
Lindisfarne,
Barclay James Harvest,
Andrew Hill,
The Moleskins,
Fugazi,
Minnie Riperton,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Desert Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aloha Tigers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Moby Grape,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.