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 Chad and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Young Marble Giants to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Jeff Lynne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Guru Guru,
Average White Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Magazine,
Bobby Byrd,
Pere Ubu,
Basic Channel,
The Cramps,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eli Mardock,
Loose Ends,
The Gun Club,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Throbbing Gristle,
Second Layer,
Amon Düül,
Bronski Beat,
Eddi Front,
The Litter,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
Little Man,
Soul II Soul,
Symarip,
Excepter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Barrington Levy,
The Sonics,
Q65,
Aaron Thompson,
Frankie Knuckles,
X-101,
Mary Jane Girls,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
Deakin,
Negative Approach,
The Cure,
Shuggie Otis,
DJ Style,
The Pretty Things,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Das Ding,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Hill,
Warsaw,
Blossom Toes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Audionom,
Roger Hodgson,
Henry Cow,
Main Source,
Youth Brigade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-Ray Spex,
DJ Sneak,
Josef K,
The Victims,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.