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 Japan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 The Sonics to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
OOIOO,
MC5,
Sällskapet,
Television Personalities,
Crispy Ambulance,
Suicide,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Motions,
The Sound,
Slave,
the Human League,
The Raincoats,
Hot Snakes,
Barrington Levy,
Sugar Minott,
The Names,
Goldenarms,
Bobby Womack,
The Buckinghams,
Neu!,
Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Khruangbin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
LL Cool J,
Sister Nancy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Junior Murvin,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Michelle Simonal,
The Saints,
Alton Ellis,
the Swans,
Kenny Larkin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Magma,
The Associates,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang Starr,
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Peter & Gordon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tom Boy,
Symarip,
Chris & Cosey,
The Neon Judgement,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swell Maps,
Yellowson,
Q and Not U,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.