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 Qatar and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
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 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 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 Davy DMX to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Surgeon,
Joe Finger,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Smiths,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Hood,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Misunderstood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mantronix,
Livin' Joy,
Joe Smooth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dirtbombs,
K-Klass,
Marmalade,
Animal Collective,
Warsaw,
Todd Rundgren,
Talk Talk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hasil Adkins,
Sarah Menescal,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobbi Humphrey,
X-101,
Niagra,
Ultra Naté,
These Immortal Souls,
Kaleidoscope,
The Kinks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Can,
Roxy Music,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skarface,
Anakelly,
Masters at Work,
Suburban Knight,
Reagan Youth,
The Gories,
Skaos,
Pantytec,
Rod Modell,
Sex Pistols,
The Slits,
The Gun Club,
Man Parrish,
Main Source,
Skriet,
D'Angelo,
The Mojo Men,
The Zeros,
Bobby Sherman,
Second Layer,
Josef K,
Shuggie Otis,
Leonard Cohen,
Desert Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.