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 Chile and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Clear Light to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Infiniti,
Terrestrial Tones,
Babytalk,
Dennis Brown,
Sonic Youth,
The Star Department,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moss Icon,
The Selecter,
Morten Harket,
DNA,
Slick Rick,
Frankie Knuckles,
Siglo XX,
Camouflage,
Isaac Hayes,
Soft Machine,
X-101,
Patti Smith,
Fugazi,
Public Enemy,
The Electric Prunes,
The Real Kids,
Heaven 17,
Chrome,
David Axelrod,
Grey Daturas,
Mantronix,
Althea and Donna,
Yellowson,
Roger Hodgson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fat Boys,
Pantaleimon,
Q65,
Deakin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Avey Tare,
Japan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dirtbombs,
Ossler,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roxette,
Skaos,
Cluster,
The Invisible,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kerri Chandler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Matthew Halsall,
Skriet,
Lindisfarne,
Kas Product,
Erykah Badu,
The Busters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.