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 Norway and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camberwell Now to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Pylon,
Angry Samoans,
Flash Fearless,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick Morgan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
Slave,
Fad Gadget,
LL Cool J,
The Angels of Light,
The Sonics,
Sun Ra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Invisible,
Lyres,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
UT,
Icehouse,
Deakin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cheater Slicks,
Agitation Free,
Banda Bassotti,
Wally Richardson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lightning Bolt,
Nik Kershaw,
Qualms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Evens,
Iggy Pop,
Ossler,
Basic Channel,
Tubeway Army,
Jacques Brel,
The Associates,
Suicide,
Eric B and Rakim,
Neil Young,
The Modern Lovers,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joey Negro,
T. Rex,
Cecil Taylor,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eurythmics,
Stiv Bators,
Hardrive,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultra Naté,
The Electric Prunes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barry Ungar,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.