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 Palau and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar 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 Radiohead to the jazz 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dennis Brown,
Chris & Cosey,
Brothers Johnson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Underground Resistance,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Au Pairs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ohio Players,
Tomorrow,
Black Sheep,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gories,
48th St. Collective,
The New Christs,
X-101,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vainqueur,
Bobby Womack,
Ronan,
LL Cool J,
Wire,
Cymande,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Wasted Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Saccharine Trust,
Shoche,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jeff Mills,
Grauzone,
Joe Finger,
Nils Olav,
Ornette Coleman,
Buzzcocks,
Youth Brigade,
the Germs,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Offenders,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick Morgan,
Drexciya,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Order,
Silicon Teens,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pussy Galore,
Todd Terry,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Talk Talk,
Leonard Cohen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.