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 China and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin 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 Rekid to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hardrive,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scratch Acid,
Sandy B,
Crispian St. Peters,
T.S.O.L.,
Joey Negro,
The Divine Comedy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Birthday Party,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Babytalk,
The Doobie Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Rod Modell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marmalade,
Main Source,
Surgeon,
Marc Almond,
David Axelrod,
D'Angelo,
DJ Sneak,
a-ha,
Ronan,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flipper,
The Trojans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alphaville,
Faust,
One Last Wish,
The Star Department,
Archie Shepp,
Stetsasonic,
Sugar Minott,
John Coltrane,
AZ,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Slackers,
EPMD,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Slick Rick,
Brothers Johnson,
The Victims,
Jeff Lynne,
Jacques Brel,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Flag,
Banda Bassotti,
Leonard Cohen,
Can,
Stereo Dub,
Lightning Bolt,
World's Most,
The Fire Engines,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.