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 Eritrea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord 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 Little Man to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Absolute Body Control,
Pere Ubu,
Andrew Hill,
Throbbing Gristle,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Fat Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Chris & Cosey,
Trumans Water,
Sonny Sharrock,
Steve Hackett,
The Mummies,
The Dead C,
Harmonia,
Joyce Sims,
Magma,
Aural Exciters,
Index,
Stockholm Monsters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Smiths,
Brass Construction,
Scion,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
The Pop Group,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gabor Szabo,
Mandrill,
Brick,
Nico,
Beasts of Bourbon,
a-ha,
Groovy Waters,
David McCallum,
Silicon Teens,
Duran Duran,
La Düsseldorf,
B.T. Express,
Kerrie Biddell,
New Order,
Deakin,
Blancmange,
The Saints,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ituana,
Erykah Badu,
Barrington Levy,
The Electric Prunes,
Newcleus,
Cecil Taylor,
The Knickerbockers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Searchers,
Jerry's Kids,
The J.B.'s,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.