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 Kosovo and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Barrington Levy to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Symarip,
John Cale,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Blackbyrds,
Khruangbin,
Cluster,
Inner City,
The Leaves,
Joe Finger,
Whodini,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nils Olav,
Warren Ellis,
Massinfluence,
Chris & Cosey,
Marmalade,
X-102,
Josef K,
UT,
Agitation Free,
Bauhaus,
Cal Tjader,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Silicon Teens,
Hardrive,
Youth Brigade,
E-Dancer,
Charles Mingus,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Maurizio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Television Personalities,
Tommy Roe,
The Young Rascals,
Grauzone,
David Bowie,
Agent Orange,
Spandau Ballet,
the Germs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Bananas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quantec,
Crime,
Mo-Dettes,
kango's stein massive,
a-ha,
Theoretical Girls,
One Last Wish,
Fela Kuti,
Monks,
LL Cool J,
Bill Near,
New Order,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.