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 Comoros and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Sugar Minott to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Minny Pops,
The New Christs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
Fugazi,
UT,
AZ,
CMW,
DJ Style,
Pantytec,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Derrick Morgan,
Television Personalities,
Audionom,
Roxy Music,
Underground Resistance,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobby Womack,
Radiopuhelimet,
Amon Düül II,
New York Dolls,
L. Decosne,
The Martian,
Kayak,
Neu!,
T. Rex,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mars,
Accadde A,
Black Flag,
Fear,
Franke,
Steve Hackett,
Lungfish,
Gabor Szabo,
Oneida,
Eyeless In Gaza,
JFA,
The Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Khruangbin,
Half Japanese,
Scott Walker,
Joy Division,
Erykah Badu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pylon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wasted Youth,
Prince Buster,
Alison Limerick,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare,
The Techniques,
Schoolly D,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.