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 Syria and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Slits to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young,
The Birthday Party,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brand Nubian,
Shuggie Otis,
Lucky Dragons,
Masters at Work,
Eden Ahbez,
R.M.O.,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minor Threat,
Rufus Thomas,
The Red Krayola,
Aural Exciters,
Heaven 17,
Johnny Clarke,
Essential Logic,
The Selecter,
Rites of Spring,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Reed,
The Cure,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Organ,
Grandmaster Flash,
Suicide,
The Human League,
Cybotron,
The Monochrome Set,
Negative Approach,
Vainqueur,
Swans,
Stiv Bators,
Funky Four + One,
PIL,
The Residents,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roy Ayers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Soft Machine,
The Dirtbombs,
Alphaville,
Camberwell Now,
June Days,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Womack,
Dawn Penn,
Piero Umiliani,
Desert Stars,
The United States of America,
Minnie Riperton,
Little Man,
Black Bananas,
Avey Tare,
Andrew Hill,
Eric Copeland,
Dead Boys,
DNA,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.