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 Liberia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Piero Umiliani to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 New Christs. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Byron Stingily 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
the Human League,
The Victims,
Tommy Roe,
Rakim,
Thompson Twins,
Nico,
D'Angelo,
Youth Brigade,
Bill Near,
Fatback Band,
Fugazi,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Patti Smith,
Kerri Chandler,
CMW,
Ten City,
Pulsallama,
Shoche,
Fela Kuti,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Niagra,
The Flesh Eaters,
Grey Daturas,
Pagans,
Gang Green,
Roxy Music,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lightning Bolt,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Standells,
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
The Techniques,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Morten Harket,
Chris & Cosey,
Lalann,
Hoover,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Moleskins,
In Retrospect,
Country Teasers,
David Bowie,
Make Up,
FM Einheit,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The J.B.'s,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Main Source,
Popol Vuh,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Brand Nubian,
Inner City,
Deadbeat,
X-101,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mad Mike,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.