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 Zambia and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Man Eating Sloth to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Cybotron,
Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ohio Players,
Gil Scott Heron,
Adolescents,
Robert Görl,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eurythmics,
Ultimate Spinach,
Flipper,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ken Boothe,
Rhythm & Sound,
Magma,
MDC,
Surgeon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Malaria!,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed,
Max Romeo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Electric Prunes,
R.M.O.,
Los Fastidios,
Lindisfarne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Carl Craig,
Sparks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fugs,
Bronski Beat,
The Pop Group,
John Coltrane,
The Residents,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeff Mills,
Gang Starr,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
The Walker Brothers,
The Trojans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dead Boys,
Panda Bear,
Lungfish,
Crooked Eye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cowsills,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dark Day,
Saccharine Trust,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.