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 Slovenia and from Toronto.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the 808 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 Brass Construction to the jazz 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radio Birdman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Human League,
The Real Kids,
Faraquet,
Hashim,
Bob Dylan,
The Knickerbockers,
Joey Negro,
the Fania All-Stars,
B.T. Express,
The Standells,
The Gap Band,
the Germs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Happenings,
Peter and Kerry,
Godley & Creme,
Country Teasers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mantronix,
Nick Fraelich,
Main Source,
John Lydon,
Radio Birdman,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
R.M.O.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Masters at Work,
Moebius,
Eve St. Jones,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Altered Images,
Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
Aaron Thompson,
Ossler,
Joe Finger,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Underground Resistance,
Urselle,
Avey Tare,
Piero Umiliani,
Bad Manners,
Pere Ubu,
Dual Sessions,
Desert Stars,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The United States of America,
The Star Department,
Malaria!,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Harpers Bizarre,
UT,
Todd Rundgren,
Marc Almond,
E-Dancer,
Max Romeo,
Albert Ayler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.