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 Spain and from Sao Paulo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 X-101 to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Nirvana,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nico,
Bobby Womack,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Country Teasers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Howard Jones,
DJ Sneak,
Neil Young,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonic Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Kaleidoscope,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
Echospace,
Simply Red,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hardrive,
Mandrill,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nas,
Sam Rivers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siglo XX,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
K-Klass,
X-102,
The Moody Blues,
Severed Heads,
Chris Corsano,
The Slackers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minutemen,
Josef K,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scott Walker,
Drexciya,
Circle Jerks,
Trumans Water,
10cc,
Nik Kershaw,
The Barracudas,
La Düsseldorf,
Make Up,
Amon Düül II,
The Invisible,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mr. Review,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Adolescents,
Black Flag,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.