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 the UAE and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rakim to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
R.M.O.,
Silicon Teens,
Guru Guru,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deepchord,
Joe Smooth,
Blake Baxter,
Pussy Galore,
Dennis Brown,
Negative Approach,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hardrive,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lightning Bolt,
The Blues Magoos,
KRS-One,
Schoolly D,
Kaleidoscope,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Moby Grape,
Morten Harket,
The Fire Engines,
The Evens,
Joy Division,
Yellowson,
The Selecter,
Sugar Minott,
Rod Modell,
48th St. Collective,
Jacques Brel,
Idris Muhammad,
Isaac Hayes,
Gabor Szabo,
Barrington Levy,
Joey Negro,
Basic Channel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Liliput,
New York Dolls,
Minutemen,
MC5,
Robert Wyatt,
Scientists,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jacob Miller,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Severed Heads,
Barbara Tucker,
Eurythmics,
New Order,
Television Personalities,
Leonard Cohen,
Maurizio,
The Neon Judgement,
Eddi Front,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.