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 Korea North and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bootsy Collins to the punk 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Aswad,
Duran Duran,
The Zeros,
Kerri Chandler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sällskapet,
Supertramp,
Ludus,
Ronan,
Charles Mingus,
Gichy Dan,
Peter and Kerry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Young Rascals,
Cymande,
Cameo,
Fat Boys,
The Monochrome Set,
A Certain Ratio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sound Behaviour,
Pere Ubu,
Fatback Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Newcleus,
Nils Olav,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Matthew Halsall,
The Cowsills,
The Seeds,
Schoolly D,
Agitation Free,
the Association,
Funky Four + One,
Tommy Roe,
Blossom Toes,
New Age Steppers,
Letta Mbulu,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
New Order,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Intrusion,
Drexciya,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Outsiders,
Yellowson,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultravox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Metal Thangz,
The Techniques,
Janne Schatter,
Von Mondo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
L. Decosne,
Pussy Galore,
The Real Kids,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.