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 Indonesia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
The Mojo Men,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
Pulsallama,
Wolf Eyes,
Popol Vuh,
The Five Americans,
Chris & Cosey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Saccharine Trust,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells,
Derrick May,
Todd Terry,
Tubeway Army,
Masters at Work,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
China Crisis,
CMW,
Piero Umiliani,
ABC,
Urselle,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Slick Rick,
Electric Prunes,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Darondo,
Amon Düül,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Residents,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Guru Guru,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kayak,
Junior Murvin,
Crash Course in Science,
Zero Boys,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fugs,
Amazonics,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Boogie Down Productions,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nils Olav,
Yazoo,
Godley & Creme,
Brothers Johnson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pagans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marvin Gaye,
Television Personalities,
The Fortunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Whodini,
Malaria!,
ABBA,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.