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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 David Bowie to the rock 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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nirvana,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Smog,
Mad Mike,
John Coltrane,
Talk Talk,
David Bowie,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marmalade,
Deepchord,
Reagan Youth,
World's Most,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fluxion,
Jandek,
The Dave Clark Five,
Unrelated Segments,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
Procol Harum,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Parry Music,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fela Kuti,
Stereo Dub,
Rites of Spring,
Guru Guru,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jimmy McGriff,
Man Eating Sloth,
Delta 5,
The American Breed,
Marvin Gaye,
The Remains,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pylon,
Jawbox,
Spoonie Gee,
Outsiders,
Jerry's Kids,
Public Enemy,
Livin' Joy,
The Toasters,
Bush Tetras,
In Retrospect,
Interpol,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eli Mardock,
The Monochrome Set,
Max Romeo,
The United States of America,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.