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 Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Rotary Connection,
Index,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jawbox,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Idris Muhammad,
Schoolly D,
Crispy Ambulance,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Stooges,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zapp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lungfish,
Scientists,
The United States of America,
Audionom,
Gang Gang Dance,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
New Age Steppers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ornette Coleman,
The Blackbyrds,
The Five Americans,
Fatback Band,
John Lydon,
Moebius,
The Names,
Howard Jones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lalann,
The Trojans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Outsiders,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lebanon Hanover,
Altered Images,
Kas Product,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Suburban Knight,
Massinfluence,
New York Dolls,
Quando Quango,
Rod Modell,
The Evens,
The Sonics,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Skatalites,
Second Layer,
Spandau Ballet,
Boredoms,
Model 500,
Trumans Water,
Lakeside,
Faust,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Morten Harket,
Tom Boy,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.