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 Colombia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grunge 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ornette Coleman,
Godley & Creme,
Mandrill,
Avey Tare,
Erasure,
Scan 7,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Doors,
D'Angelo,
Fat Boys,
The Golliwogs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Dead C,
Peter & Gordon,
Joyce Sims,
the Human League,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Liliput,
The Techniques,
K-Klass,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobby Byrd,
Kool Moe Dee,
Delon & Dalcan,
This Heat,
Country Teasers,
Donald Byrd,
Carl Craig,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Basic Channel,
Sugar Minott,
Jesper Dahlback,
China Crisis,
Roxy Music,
John Coltrane,
Chris & Cosey,
Funky Four + One,
Jacob Miller,
Piero Umiliani,
Dead Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Blossom Toes,
Symarip,
Underground Resistance,
Cymande,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
U.S. Maple,
Dual Sessions,
Radio Birdman,
Can,
the Bar-Kays,
MDC,
Black Pus,
Royal Trux,
The Martian,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.