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 Tuvalu and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Gastr Del Sol to the funk 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Tremeloes,
Ten City,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Los Fastidios,
Joensuu 1685,
D'Angelo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quantec,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
JFA,
Nico,
Television Personalities,
June of 44,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
This Heat,
Agent Orange,
Essential Logic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Byrd,
Alison Limerick,
Jerry's Kids,
The Wake,
Guru Guru,
Matthew Halsall,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Archie Shepp,
Dawn Penn,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
Quando Quango,
Don Cherry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Freddie Wadling,
Glenn Branca,
Franke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
David Axelrod,
Joe Finger,
Rapeman,
Ice-T,
Soul II Soul,
The Zeros,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tres Demented,
In Retrospect,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Dolphy,
Television,
John Cale,
June Days,
Absolute Body Control,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.