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 Chile and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Wire to the disco 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Main Source,
Laurel Aitken,
Scott Walker,
Moebius,
Magma,
Easy Going,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
The Young Rascals,
the Normal,
Joy Division,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deepchord,
Supertramp,
Maurizio,
Freddie Wadling,
Peter & Gordon,
Sound Behaviour,
Letta Mbulu,
The Birthday Party,
Mad Mike,
Loose Ends,
Masters at Work,
Althea and Donna,
Drexciya,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Iggy Pop,
Country Teasers,
Maleditus Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eddi Front,
Rod Modell,
Theoretical Girls,
Eurythmics,
Reuben Wilson,
Flipper,
Juan Atkins,
Zero Boys,
Darondo,
Minnie Riperton,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wolf Eyes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Con Funk Shun,
Essential Logic,
Vainqueur,
The Durutti Column,
Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Hashim,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Motions,
John Cale,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cluster,
Jeff Lynne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
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.