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 Egypt and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dawn Penn to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Golliwogs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Todd Rundgren,
Magma,
Dual Sessions,
Camberwell Now,
Black Bananas,
David Bowie,
Pagans,
MDC,
The Young Rascals,
Suicide,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ituana,
The Techniques,
Ludus,
Basic Channel,
The Fortunes,
The Blackbyrds,
Henry Cow,
The Tremeloes,
Roger Hodgson,
Howard Jones,
Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Khruangbin,
Avey Tare,
the Bar-Kays,
The Index,
The Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bronski Beat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Amon Düül II,
the Swans,
Theoretical Girls,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Martian,
Y Pants,
Animal Collective,
Masters at Work,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roxette,
Quando Quango,
OOIOO,
Saccharine Trust,
James White and The Blacks,
Max Romeo,
K-Klass,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fat Boys,
Los Fastidios,
The Trojans,
Ornette Coleman,
Angry Samoans,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.