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 Lesotho and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Ultravox to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Saints. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection 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?
The Alarm Clocks,
Simply Red,
Jeff Lynne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Josef K,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Techniques,
Ken Boothe,
Don Cherry,
Tomorrow,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sonic Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ituana,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Severed Heads,
The Saints,
Oblivians,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gap Band,
PIL,
Todd Terry,
Newcleus,
Scientists,
Piero Umiliani,
John Lydon,
Deakin,
Massinfluence,
Oneida,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sonics,
Black Pus,
Zapp,
Japan,
Patti Smith,
Audionom,
Prince Buster,
Second Layer,
Crash Course in Science,
The Leaves,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Flash Fearless,
Bad Manners,
Motorama,
Mary Jane Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Visage,
Wire,
Henry Cow,
Parry Music,
Urselle,
Andrew Hill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Flag,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.