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 Georgia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the grime 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
The Count Five,
Fad Gadget,
Max Romeo,
Yusef Lateef,
Dawn Penn,
Dave Gahan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Interpol,
Cluster,
Faust,
The American Breed,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Au Pairs,
Hashim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pagans,
Kenny Larkin,
The Pretty Things,
The Slackers,
Pierre Henry,
Lyres,
Robert Görl,
Gerry Rafferty,
DNA,
Shuggie Otis,
Rod Modell,
Barry Ungar,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joensuu 1685,
Dennis Brown,
Tim Buckley,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scion,
Half Japanese,
The Remains,
Fela Kuti,
Massinfluence,
Trumans Water,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Parry Music,
Aural Exciters,
a-ha,
Ludus,
Pole,
The Fire Engines,
Black Sheep,
the Fania All-Stars,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare,
Zero Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Raincoats,
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Andrew Hill,
Albert Ayler,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.