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 Solomon Islands and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Mo-Dettes to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Byrd,
Sound Behaviour,
Drexciya,
The Monochrome Set,
Vladislav Delay,
The Pretty Things,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camouflage,
Q and Not U,
Aaron Thompson,
Saccharine Trust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dead C,
Barbara Tucker,
Wolf Eyes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yellowson,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Wyatt,
The Doors,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pantytec,
Mandrill,
Charles Mingus,
Sun Ra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mad Mike,
Agitation Free,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Amazonics,
Interpol,
The Associates,
Delon & Dalcan,
DJ Style,
Black Moon,
Audionom,
Steve Hackett,
Fort Wilson Riot,
D'Angelo,
Technova,
Idris Muhammad,
Danielle Patucci,
Parry Music,
The Electric Prunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Amon Düül II,
The Durutti Column,
Cluster,
The Angels of Light,
Amon Düül,
Deakin,
June Days,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Yazoo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mantronix,
Gastr Del Sol,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.