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 Chile and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Negative Approach to the crunk 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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Don Cherry,
Sun City Girls,
Underground Resistance,
Nas,
La Düsseldorf,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Spandau Ballet,
Amon Düül,
Cymande,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Barclay James Harvest,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gerry Rafferty,
ABBA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
Can,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Robert Görl,
Fluxion,
Massinfluence,
The Neon Judgement,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Beau Brummels,
H. Thieme,
Black Flag,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Circle Jerks,
Das Ding,
Schoolly D,
Cal Tjader,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fugs,
Fatback Band,
Jandek,
The Fuzztones,
Minny Pops,
the Swans,
MDC,
Radio Birdman,
Byron Stingily,
Stetsasonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boredoms,
Joy Division,
Smog,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Skatalites,
Ornette Coleman,
Masters at Work,
Arcadia,
China Crisis,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Womack,
The Moleskins,
ABC,
The Trojans,
Warsaw,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.