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 St Lucia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Quantec to the electroclash 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Pere Ubu,
Roxette,
Sexual Harrassment,
Symarip,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alison Limerick,
Skriet,
The Offenders,
The Sonics,
Minutemen,
Eddi Front,
Gang Starr,
Ten City,
Todd Terry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Real Kids,
John Cale,
Sandy B,
Junior Murvin,
The Dead C,
Black Sheep,
Piero Umiliani,
Sarah Menescal,
Buzzcocks,
Suicide,
Rotary Connection,
Panda Bear,
10cc,
The Monochrome Set,
Kayak,
Bill Near,
Organ,
Country Teasers,
Schoolly D,
Can,
Stereo Dub,
Anakelly,
F. McDonald,
The Misunderstood,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soft Machine,
Tommy Roe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bronski Beat,
Basic Channel,
Nick Fraelich,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lee Hazlewood,
Q65,
Reuben Wilson,
Colin Newman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Das Ding,
The Walker Brothers,
Henry Cow,
Eli Mardock,
Minny Pops,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.