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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Colin Newman to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Peter & Gordon,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cramps,
John Cale,
Suburban Knight,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
Henry Cow,
The Busters,
Pagans,
Roger Hodgson,
Tim Buckley,
Alice Coltrane,
Dark Day,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Misunderstood,
Television Personalities,
The Star Department,
Howard Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eve St. Jones,
Sixth Finger,
Adolescents,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Drexciya,
Wire,
The Knickerbockers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aural Exciters,
Thee Headcoats,
Lalann,
Ronan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rekid,
Todd Terry,
Hashim,
Animal Collective,
Minutemen,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Selecter,
FM Einheit,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bill Wells,
The Sonics,
The Victims,
Gang Starr,
Heaven 17,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiopuhelimet,
AZ,
Ten City,
Boogie Down Productions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Mummies,
Dave Gahan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.