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 Nigeria and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Bauhaus to the punk 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
Skaos,
The Vogues,
Scan 7,
Zero Boys,
Parry Music,
Bush Tetras,
Intrusion,
Goldenarms,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Q65,
Peter & Gordon,
Jeff Lynne,
The Pop Group,
Yellowson,
Schoolly D,
Letta Mbulu,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vainqueur,
Pierre Henry,
Morten Harket,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang of Four,
The Moleskins,
JFA,
Alice Coltrane,
Eric Copeland,
Desert Stars,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sam Rivers,
a-ha,
The Smoke,
The Martian,
Fad Gadget,
The Velvet Underground,
Boogie Down Productions,
Clear Light,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Mummies,
Black Moon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pantaleimon,
The Associates,
DNA,
Hasil Adkins,
Aaron Thompson,
The American Breed,
Joey Negro,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suburban Knight,
Mars,
Eurythmics,
Lungfish,
Main Source,
KRS-One,
The Cure,
Roxette,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
AZ,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.