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 Haiti and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Scientists to the punk 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scrapy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
The Gladiators,
Sixth Finger,
Schoolly D,
Make Up,
Lindisfarne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Litter,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gang Green,
T.S.O.L.,
The Red Krayola,
Laurel Aitken,
The Names,
Avey Tare,
Josef K,
Livin' Joy,
Eddi Front,
Au Pairs,
Echospace,
Royal Trux,
China Crisis,
Hot Snakes,
Yazoo,
X-102,
Ten City,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Slits,
Television Personalities,
Faraquet,
Sällskapet,
Panda Bear,
Nils Olav,
Country Teasers,
Dark Day,
Chrome,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Shuggie Otis,
Robert Wyatt,
Clear Light,
The Remains,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Anakelly,
Von Mondo,
The Sonics,
Boredoms,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amazonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Victims,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wire,
The Modern Lovers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.