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 Peru and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hashim to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Boz Scaggs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Wake,
These Immortal Souls,
Marc Almond,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crooked Eye,
Angry Samoans,
John Holt,
Agitation Free,
FM Einheit,
Junior Murvin,
The Shadows of Knight,
CMW,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pagans,
The Kinks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Can,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Flag,
JFA,
Moss Icon,
One Last Wish,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Anakelly,
Idris Muhammad,
Roxette,
Dual Sessions,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Clarke,
Ponytail,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
The Gories,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stereo Dub,
Eve St. Jones,
Public Enemy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Cybotron,
The Electric Prunes,
The Slackers,
Deadbeat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ultra Naté,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.