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 France and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Graham Central Station to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flash Fearless,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nik Kershaw,
Tommy Roe,
KRS-One,
Al Stewart,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Sheep,
Fifty Foot Hose,
MDC,
the Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Faraquet,
OOIOO,
Michelle Simonal,
Tomorrow,
Robert Wyatt,
Barry Ungar,
kango's stein massive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bill Near,
Loose Ends,
Ice-T,
Rakim,
Roxy Music,
Cheater Slicks,
The Index,
The Dirtbombs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Deepchord,
Slave,
Swans,
X-102,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chris Corsano,
The Victims,
Television Personalities,
World's Most,
Vainqueur,
The Slits,
E-Dancer,
Brick,
Dawn Penn,
The Blues Magoos,
Bronski Beat,
Rekid,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
John Foxx,
Sarah Menescal,
Rites of Spring,
Wolf Eyes,
Judy Mowatt,
Stockholm Monsters,
Echospace,
Model 500,
Monks,
Sam Rivers,
Magazine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Unwound,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.