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 Ukraine and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 sitar 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 Accadde A to the disco 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sight & Sound,
Buzzcocks,
Kerri Chandler,
Lalo Schifrin,
Desert Stars,
ABBA,
The Toasters,
Curtis Mayfield,
New York Dolls,
Skarface,
Guru Guru,
Suburban Knight,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Duran Duran,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Albert Ayler,
Blancmange,
Slave,
Joy Division,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Busters,
ABC,
Magazine,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tommy Roe,
Livin' Joy,
The Gories,
Black Moon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arthur Verocai,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moebius,
Todd Terry,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
The New Christs,
Aswad,
The Trojans,
Pussy Galore,
Monolake,
Sister Nancy,
Marcia Griffiths,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Associates,
Donald Byrd,
David Bowie,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sun Ra,
The American Breed,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soft Machine,
Deepchord,
Vladislav Delay,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.