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 Belarus and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mission of Burma to the rock 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nik Kershaw,
Lucky Dragons,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Letta Mbulu,
Alison Limerick,
Ronnie Foster,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
The Dirtbombs,
Can,
Danielle Patucci,
DNA,
Fatback Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris & Cosey,
John Coltrane,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-102,
Brand Nubian,
Sällskapet,
Lalann,
Hashim,
Animal Collective,
The Red Krayola,
F. McDonald,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cal Tjader,
John Foxx,
Man Parrish,
The Evens,
Bobby Sherman,
The Busters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barrington Levy,
The Moleskins,
John Cale,
The Durutti Column,
Gichy Dan,
Flash Fearless,
Y Pants,
Young Marble Giants,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Patti Smith,
Magma,
Black Pus,
Procol Harum,
Camberwell Now,
Sarah Menescal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pussy Galore,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Das Ding,
the Swans,
Interpol,
Nick Fraelich,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.