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 Latvia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rod Modell to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
The Knickerbockers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Depeche Mode,
The Star Department,
DJ Sneak,
Urselle,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mantronix,
The Count Five,
Cheater Slicks,
The Pop Group,
Sarah Menescal,
The Techniques,
Scratch Acid,
Essential Logic,
Barry Ungar,
Byron Stingily,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Simply Red,
Davy DMX,
The Invisible,
Piero Umiliani,
Barclay James Harvest,
Masters at Work,
the Germs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Flag,
F. McDonald,
Camberwell Now,
The Pretty Things,
The Barracudas,
Bob Dylan,
Aloha Tigers,
Slave,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Bowie,
Jerry's Kids,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Popol Vuh,
a-ha,
Pantaleimon,
Ultravox,
Graham Central Station,
Pussy Galore,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nas,
AZ,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warren Ellis,
Motorama,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nik Kershaw,
Flipper,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Das Ding,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.