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 Malaysia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kenny Larkin to the disco 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camouflage,
Warren Ellis,
The Skatalites,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
H. Thieme,
The Busters,
Suburban Knight,
Y Pants,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
June Days,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Durutti Column,
Make Up,
Derrick Morgan,
Simply Red,
The Gories,
Public Enemy,
The Fire Engines,
Section 25,
Grey Daturas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terry Callier,
These Immortal Souls,
Ten City,
CMW,
Bob Dylan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agent Orange,
Darondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blackbyrds,
Mad Mike,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neu!,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eddi Front,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Litter,
Idris Muhammad,
The Red Krayola,
Angry Samoans,
The Black Dice,
Fatback Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rakim,
Marine Girls,
Pylon,
Joy Division,
Metal Thangz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Deepchord,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Banda Bassotti,
Maurizio,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.