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 Algeria and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Invisible to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
The Barracudas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funkadelic,
Young Marble Giants,
Parry Music,
CMW,
Minny Pops,
Kayak,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Arcadia,
John Holt,
Scientists,
The Grass Roots,
The Smoke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Depeche Mode,
F. McDonald,
Second Layer,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Drive Like Jehu,
OOIOO,
Dead Boys,
MC5,
Tears for Fears,
Arab on Radar,
The American Breed,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jerry's Kids,
The Raincoats,
Audionom,
Soft Machine,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
David Bowie,
Scratch Acid,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Michelle Simonal,
Zapp,
Echospace,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Associates,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Yaz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DJ Style,
The Toasters,
Siglo XX,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Zero Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pussy Galore,
Mars,
The Searchers,
Negative Approach,
Radio Birdman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
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.