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 Montenegro and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wings to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
The Smiths,
Groovy Waters,
Sugar Minott,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Red Krayola,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
MDC,
Darondo,
Symarip,
Procol Harum,
The Pop Group,
Tres Demented,
Ultra Naté,
CMW,
Jimmy McGriff,
Whodini,
Agitation Free,
ABC,
Eve St. Jones,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Mummies,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kool Moe Dee,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
AZ,
Agent Orange,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DNA,
Sight & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The American Breed,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Slick Rick,
Tim Buckley,
Aswad,
The Litter,
Silicon Teens,
The Birthday Party,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cecil Taylor,
Lakeside,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
Flash Fearless,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Brothers Johnson,
Sarah Menescal,
Byron Stingily,
Fear,
Isaac Hayes,
Main Source,
Scion,
The Fall,
Cymande,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Count Five,
The Victims,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.