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 Serbia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Skriet to the rap 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar 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 mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joensuu 1685,
Jacob Miller,
The Skatalites,
Black Sheep,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gap Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Iggy Pop,
Country Teasers,
D'Angelo,
The Sonics,
T. Rex,
Crash Course in Science,
Altered Images,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Vainqueur,
Radio Birdman,
The Barracudas,
Neil Young,
Schoolly D,
Index,
Lower 48,
Essential Logic,
A Certain Ratio,
June of 44,
Pagans,
The Saints,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Angels of Light,
Swans,
The Red Krayola,
Dennis Brown,
Patti Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
These Immortal Souls,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Sherman,
Oneida,
The Wake,
Aural Exciters,
Sandy B,
Scan 7,
Dual Sessions,
Guru Guru,
Rhythm & Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Sonics,
New Age Steppers,
Nik Kershaw,
Mission of Burma,
Black Flag,
ABBA,
The Move,
Lou Reed,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.