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 East Timor and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Guru Guru to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart 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?
AZ,
Zapp,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DNA,
Grey Daturas,
Can,
Das Ding,
Suburban Knight,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brothers Johnson,
Grauzone,
10cc,
Stiv Bators,
Harmonia,
Max Romeo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Carl Craig,
Eric Copeland,
The Gladiators,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cowsills,
Toni Rubio,
the Normal,
Eve St. Jones,
Yusef Lateef,
Kas Product,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mark Hollis,
Stereo Dub,
John Foxx,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
This Heat,
Brand Nubian,
H. Thieme,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Crime,
Rekid,
Swans,
Soul II Soul,
Joy Division,
Gang Starr,
Negative Approach,
Sight & Sound,
Brass Construction,
Hoover,
Moby Grape,
New Order,
Warren Ellis,
Ten City,
Harry Pussy,
Index,
Flipper,
Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.