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 Serbia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Fraelich,
Todd Rundgren,
Roxy Music,
Crispian St. Peters,
Althea and Donna,
Liliput,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter and Kerry,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Evens,
MC5,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Shoche,
Camberwell Now,
The Leaves,
The Raincoats,
Eddi Front,
Trumans Water,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lakeside,
AZ,
New Order,
the Soft Cell,
Sugar Minott,
Marine Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stereo Dub,
The Fuzztones,
Scientists,
Rod Modell,
Guru Guru,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Babytalk,
Tom Boy,
Charles Mingus,
Magazine,
Barry Ungar,
Rakim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Thee Headcoats,
Procol Harum,
FM Einheit,
Ultravox,
Lindisfarne,
Marvin Gaye,
Pussy Galore,
Idris Muhammad,
The Toasters,
The United States of America,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ronnie Foster,
The Saints,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joyce Sims,
DJ Sneak,
Malaria!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.