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 Ireland and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Newcleus to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Groovy Waters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Roger Hodgson,
Maurizio,
Jerry's Kids,
Nico,
Eric Dolphy,
Crime,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chrome,
Bobby Byrd,
Kas Product,
Idris Muhammad,
This Heat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Warren Ellis,
Excepter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brick,
Davy DMX,
Quadrant,
The Red Krayola,
Johnny Clarke,
Television,
The Moody Blues,
Sam Rivers,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Masters at Work,
Tommy Roe,
Morten Harket,
Harpers Bizarre,
Leonard Cohen,
Jawbox,
The Fugs,
Scan 7,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joey Negro,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echospace,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
Quantec,
Lucky Dragons,
Sound Behaviour,
The Walker Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
The Busters,
The Durutti Column,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Popol Vuh,
The Offenders,
Swans,
Sixth Finger,
Blossom Toes,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.