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 Taiwan and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Don Cherry to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a guitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
The Golliwogs,
Ken Boothe,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Kinks,
Bronski Beat,
Reagan Youth,
Michelle Simonal,
Derrick May,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Blancmange,
Brothers Johnson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kurtis Blow,
FM Einheit,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ossler,
Kaleidoscope,
Fad Gadget,
The J.B.'s,
Faraquet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jacques Brel,
kango's stein massive,
Interpol,
Pharoah Sanders,
Make Up,
Barrington Levy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Malaria!,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eddi Front,
The Cowsills,
Glenn Branca,
The Real Kids,
Soft Cell,
Angry Samoans,
Fat Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sound,
Dawn Penn,
Niagra,
Wally Richardson,
Alison Limerick,
Inner City,
Minutemen,
Zapp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dave Gahan,
Hot Snakes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cure,
The Gap Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.