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 Paraguay and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Duran Duran to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deakin,
Erykah Badu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ken Boothe,
The Buckinghams,
Andrew Hill,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
New Order,
DJ Sneak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Section 25,
Slick Rick,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bluetip,
Malaria!,
Amon Düül,
Mo-Dettes,
Flipper,
The Gun Club,
Toni Rubio,
The Kinks,
Urselle,
Intrusion,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Beau Brummels,
Kaleidoscope,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
L. Decosne,
Matthew Halsall,
Anakelly,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nas,
The Happenings,
Kenny Larkin,
Second Layer,
Cluster,
Sixth Finger,
Gang Starr,
Terry Callier,
Radiopuhelimet,
Henry Cow,
A Certain Ratio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Albert Ayler,
The Dirtbombs,
Groovy Waters,
Youth Brigade,
Scrapy,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fortunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharoah Sanders,
Johnny Osbourne,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.