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 Spain and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Harmonia to the dance 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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck 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 crunk 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Sixth Finger,
Groovy Waters,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Pretty Things,
Ten City,
The Zeros,
Skriet,
Scion,
Darondo,
New Age Steppers,
Pierre Henry,
Barrington Levy,
Davy DMX,
Joe Smooth,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeff Mills,
Kool Moe Dee,
Talk Talk,
Bad Manners,
Ronnie Foster,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
Althea and Donna,
The Beau Brummels,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pagans,
Ice-T,
Deakin,
Camouflage,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joyce Sims,
Interpol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cybotron,
Bobby Womack,
Shoche,
Flash Fearless,
Susan Cadogan,
Schoolly D,
Sun City Girls,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
FM Einheit,
Royal Trux,
Rod Modell,
Motorama,
Letta Mbulu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sex Pistols,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Whodini,
Mantronix,
The Fugs,
The Five Americans,
Brand Nubian,
Black Bananas,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.