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 Lebanon and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron 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 James White and The Blacks to the rock 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Patti Smith,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mission of Burma,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moody Blues,
Pole,
the Fania All-Stars,
Barbara Tucker,
Monolake,
The Neon Judgement,
Japan,
Whodini,
Nils Olav,
Sandy B,
Eve St. Jones,
Scratch Acid,
DJ Sneak,
Kool Moe Dee,
The American Breed,
Joey Negro,
Angry Samoans,
Symarip,
Cecil Taylor,
Altered Images,
Mo-Dettes,
Electric Prunes,
Marc Almond,
Goldenarms,
the Swans,
Dual Sessions,
Newcleus,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Talk Talk,
Popol Vuh,
Todd Terry,
Surgeon,
Derrick May,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Metal Thangz,
Public Enemy,
Pantaleimon,
Brick,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smoke,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Offenders,
Index,
X-102,
Cybotron,
The Busters,
The Index,
Model 500,
Rites of Spring,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lungfish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Spandau Ballet,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.