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 Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
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 Angry Samoans to the funk 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonic Youth,
John Lydon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tubeway Army,
Scientists,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiohead,
John Holt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roger Hodgson,
Joyce Sims,
The Moody Blues,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
ABBA,
Siglo XX,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sparks,
The Cure,
DNA,
Gil Scott Heron,
Skriet,
The Blues Magoos,
Scrapy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Wake,
New Age Steppers,
Skarface,
The Angels of Light,
Rosa Yemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Groovy Waters,
Spoonie Gee,
Sam Rivers,
Slick Rick,
Nils Olav,
The Red Krayola,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Basic Channel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quadrant,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ituana,
Electric Prunes,
Index,
Soul II Soul,
The Gladiators,
The Monochrome Set,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Erasure,
Judy Mowatt,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
World's Most,
Wire,
Icehouse,
Minnie Riperton,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.