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 Chad and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator 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 Television to the punk 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tom Boy,
Animal Collective,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moebius,
Lalann,
Bluetip,
10cc,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unwound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Divine Comedy,
ABC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Steve Hackett,
Ice-T,
Neu!,
Roxette,
Black Pus,
Public Enemy,
Arab on Radar,
Moby Grape,
Liliput,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Tres Demented,
Lakeside,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pagans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
a-ha,
The Neon Judgement,
Dorothy Ashby,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Christie,
Das Ding,
Andrew Hill,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
H. Thieme,
Nico,
Henry Cow,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wings,
MC5,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lindisfarne,
Bobby Womack,
The Names,
Robert Görl,
Rites of Spring,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Lydon,
Warsaw,
Bush Tetras,
Erykah Badu,
The Fall,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.