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 Bulgaria and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
David Bowie,
Country Teasers,
Youth Brigade,
The Raincoats,
The Stooges,
The Victims,
Dorothy Ashby,
Section 25,
B.T. Express,
Gichy Dan,
The Black Dice,
Sarah Menescal,
Brothers Johnson,
Faraquet,
Sugar Minott,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
KRS-One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Supertramp,
Anakelly,
Livin' Joy,
Dual Sessions,
Bang On A Can,
Tom Boy,
Fat Boys,
Neil Young,
Cheater Slicks,
Spoonie Gee,
Zero Boys,
Cecil Taylor,
Eddi Front,
Arcadia,
Sex Pistols,
Pantytec,
Bill Wells,
Severed Heads,
The Cure,
June Days,
Flash Fearless,
Maurizio,
Eurythmics,
Eric Dolphy,
Arthur Verocai,
Blake Baxter,
Guru Guru,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Smoke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Johnny Clarke,
Lightning Bolt,
Godley & Creme,
kango's stein massive,
Pagans,
Rod Modell,
Erasure,
Dennis Brown,
Mission of Burma,
The Searchers,
The Techniques,
Robert Hood,
New Age Steppers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.