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 Bolivia and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 The Associates to the disco 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tres Demented,
Anthony Braxton,
Talk Talk,
Hashim,
Andrew Hill,
Eve St. Jones,
The Move,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
James White and The Blacks,
Faust,
Warsaw,
ABBA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harmonia,
The Star Department,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
D'Angelo,
Main Source,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bill Wells,
Maurizio,
Stereo Dub,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sonic Youth,
The Invisible,
Tommy Roe,
Joyce Sims,
The Mojo Men,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Banda Bassotti,
Ludus,
Crash Course in Science,
Wasted Youth,
U.S. Maple,
Frankie Knuckles,
Barrington Levy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
10cc,
Warren Ellis,
Franke,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Trojans,
The Toasters,
Stetsasonic,
Television,
Q and Not U,
Swans,
Simply Red,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Youth Brigade,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Man Eating Sloth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The New Christs,
the Sonics,
John Lydon,
MC5,
Robert Görl,
Magma,
DNA, DNA, DNA, DNA.
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.