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 Switzerland and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Manchester and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the rock 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joe Smooth,
Moss Icon,
Mandrill,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
DNA,
the Human League,
The Barracudas,
Sugar Minott,
John Coltrane,
Liliput,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bobby Sherman,
Gichy Dan,
David McCallum,
Guru Guru,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Agent Orange,
Procol Harum,
Cecil Taylor,
Saccharine Trust,
The Star Department,
Grauzone,
Intrusion,
Aural Exciters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Terrestrial Tones,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Barbara Tucker,
Erykah Badu,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang Gang Dance,
Henry Cow,
The Beau Brummels,
Cluster,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dawn Penn,
F. McDonald,
Kerri Chandler,
The Kinks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Germs,
John Lydon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hasil Adkins,
The Pop Group,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Absolute Body Control,
Crime,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.