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 El Salvador and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 ABBA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Glambeats Corp.,
Hot Snakes,
Dennis Brown,
Ituana,
Jacques Brel,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crime,
This Heat,
Skarface,
Amazonics,
Outsiders,
Cymande,
Michelle Simonal,
DJ Style,
Tim Buckley,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
Nico,
Brick,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Martian,
Supertramp,
Lalo Schifrin,
Audionom,
Maleditus Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skriet,
The Saints,
DJ Sneak,
Massinfluence,
Section 25,
F. McDonald,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Standells,
The Associates,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funky Four + One,
Scott Walker,
Arcadia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ronnie Foster,
Country Teasers,
Morten Harket,
Reuben Wilson,
Lightning Bolt,
Barrington Levy,
Minor Threat,
The Grass Roots,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marine Girls,
The Slits,
The Victims,
Bluetip,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.