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 Tanzania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rites of Spring to the crunk 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Quando Quango,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vainqueur,
Aloha Tigers,
Joe Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
The Cure,
Urselle,
Agitation Free,
The Last Poets,
Erykah Badu,
The Zeros,
Tommy Roe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Steve Hackett,
Jawbox,
Ultimate Spinach,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gories,
Lungfish,
Talk Talk,
One Last Wish,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Banda Bassotti,
LL Cool J,
The Modern Lovers,
June Days,
Masters at Work,
John Holt,
Tom Boy,
Metal Thangz,
Theoretical Girls,
Hot Snakes,
Fela Kuti,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kayak,
Dual Sessions,
The Associates,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Remains,
Crash Course in Science,
The Happenings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Toni Rubio,
The Red Krayola,
Von Mondo,
Absolute Body Control,
The Selecter,
Patti Smith,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.