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 Togo and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
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 chamberlin 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 Roger Hodgson 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Flamin' Groovies,
June Days,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Yellowson,
Icehouse,
Gong,
Scientists,
Metal Thangz,
Animal Collective,
the Bar-Kays,
Blake Baxter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Albert Ayler,
Lyres,
Joy Division,
The Beau Brummels,
Bang On A Can,
Siglo XX,
Sällskapet,
Altered Images,
Intrusion,
Saccharine Trust,
Malaria!,
Wasted Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fall,
Matthew Halsall,
Amon Düül II,
Scrapy,
Echospace,
The Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Slackers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moebius,
Patti Smith,
Liliput,
cv313,
The Knickerbockers,
Alton Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
the Soft Cell,
Cameo,
The Young Rascals,
Subhumans,
Fear,
Ultra Naté,
Con Funk Shun,
Joensuu 1685,
Mad Mike,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
John Lydon,
Vainqueur,
ABBA,
Freddie Wadling,
Depeche Mode,
Skriet,
Wire,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.