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 Cuba and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Agent Orange,
Eddi Front,
Godley & Creme,
Bill Near,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Charles Mingus,
Outsiders,
Rotary Connection,
Schoolly D,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blancmange,
Henry Cow,
The Invisible,
The Gap Band,
cv313,
Gabor Szabo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stereo Dub,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Young Rascals,
Negative Approach,
Japan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Evens,
Althea and Donna,
Radiohead,
The New Christs,
Kayak,
The Angels of Light,
Scion,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Erykah Badu,
Davy DMX,
Wire,
CMW,
Avey Tare,
a-ha,
Camberwell Now,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABBA,
Alice Coltrane,
Johnny Osbourne,
One Last Wish,
Infiniti,
Sparks,
Chris Corsano,
Accadde A,
The Sound,
Delon & Dalcan,
Maleditus Sound,
Bauhaus,
The Move,
Piero Umiliani,
Cheater Slicks,
Sixth Finger,
Bronski Beat,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.