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 Belarus and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Boz Scaggs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ornette Coleman,
The Evens,
Eve St. Jones,
Sister Nancy,
Severed Heads,
Essential Logic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Smiths,
Mars,
The Cure,
Josef K,
Whodini,
Saccharine Trust,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Flash Fearless,
Porter Ricks,
Angry Samoans,
Ossler,
Nils Olav,
The Happenings,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobby Womack,
KRS-One,
The Victims,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tres Demented,
Todd Rundgren,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Monks,
Minor Threat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bauhaus,
Simply Red,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swans,
Quando Quango,
The Standells,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Connie Case,
Lakeside,
Wasted Youth,
Royal Trux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Colin Newman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Gang Dance,
a-ha,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Section 25,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Detroit Cobras,
One Last Wish,
Soul Sonic Force,
Slick Rick,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tom Boy,
Pierre Henry,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.