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 Ecuador and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Echospace to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Quando Quango,
Agitation Free,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Motions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Zero Boys,
Alphaville,
Sight & Sound,
The Smiths,
K-Klass,
Boredoms,
Television,
Yusef Lateef,
Organ,
Hoover,
Stiv Bators,
Silicon Teens,
Bobby Womack,
Angry Samoans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dual Sessions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bob Dylan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marine Girls,
Make Up,
Intrusion,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
The Smoke,
June of 44,
Surgeon,
The Standells,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rapeman,
The Gladiators,
Motorama,
Girls At Our Best!,
Charles Mingus,
Sixth Finger,
The Associates,
Josef K,
The Buckinghams,
Animal Collective,
Magma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Green,
X-Ray Spex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hashim,
Sun City Girls,
Sam Rivers,
the Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arab on Radar,
Johnny Osbourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Country Teasers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
The Angels of Light,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.