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 Palau and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 UT 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ornette Coleman,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fortunes,
The Index,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kayak,
Rekid,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Sound,
Q and Not U,
Moebius,
Kenny Larkin,
The Trojans,
Desert Stars,
Josef K,
Skarface,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fluxion,
Al Stewart,
The Skatalites,
Oneida,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Prunes,
Roxette,
Bobby Womack,
Blossom Toes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
B.T. Express,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gap Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Kerrie Biddell,
Unrelated Segments,
Fatback Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Dirtbombs,
The Remains,
DJ Style,
Stiv Bators,
Cecil Taylor,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-102,
Swell Maps,
The Zeros,
Anakelly,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mark Hollis,
Young Marble Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.