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 Kazakhstan and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Flamin' Groovies to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Residents. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quadrant,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heaven 17,
Black Bananas,
The Birthday Party,
Adolescents,
Interpol,
Parry Music,
Minny Pops,
Crash Course in Science,
Roxette,
Max Romeo,
Altered Images,
Barbara Tucker,
Todd Rundgren,
Liliput,
Public Image Ltd.,
Deakin,
Kenny Larkin,
the Swans,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Reed,
Joey Negro,
Mars,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Grass Roots,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camouflage,
Funky Four + One,
One Last Wish,
Moebius,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sugar Minott,
Lindisfarne,
Maleditus Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Man Parrish,
Pulsallama,
La Düsseldorf,
Soulsonic Force,
The United States of America,
Robert Wyatt,
Neu!,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Standells,
The Fuzztones,
Oneida,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Talk Talk,
X-101,
Graham Central Station,
Glambeats Corp.,
Judy Mowatt,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Swell Maps,
The Tremeloes,
Section 25,
Gong,
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.