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 Lithuania and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lower 48,
Surgeon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cameo,
Crash Course in Science,
Pussy Galore,
Scratch Acid,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Sherman,
Fat Boys,
The Mojo Men,
China Crisis,
The Red Krayola,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young,
Jimmy McGriff,
Spandau Ballet,
Gang Starr,
The Dirtbombs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Music Machine,
Los Fastidios,
Sparks,
Byron Stingily,
The Pop Group,
Dawn Penn,
Gregory Isaacs,
MC5,
Nick Fraelich,
Danielle Patucci,
Fifty Foot Hose,
David Bowie,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Monks,
Radiohead,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
The Sonics,
Magazine,
New Age Steppers,
Michelle Simonal,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Blackbyrds,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Essential Logic,
Swans,
Lungfish,
Heaven 17,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dave Gahan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Motorama,
Wally Richardson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeff Lynne,
Eve St. Jones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.