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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Al Stewart to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Robert Görl,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Minutemen,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Litter,
Kaleidoscope,
Anthony Braxton,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Monks,
Radiohead,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monolake,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pole,
Metal Thangz,
Model 500,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
In Retrospect,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blossom Toes,
Sixth Finger,
Don Cherry,
Lakeside,
T.S.O.L.,
Roxette,
Lalann,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Chris & Cosey,
Ornette Coleman,
DNA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Icehouse,
Bill Near,
The Five Americans,
Aaron Thompson,
Sandy B,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ken Boothe,
Joe Smooth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ohio Players,
The Young Rascals,
Lebanon Hanover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Almond,
Fela Kuti,
The Shadows of Knight,
Altered Images,
Ituana,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lou Reed,
Marshall Jefferson,
kango's stein massive,
Mars,
Y Pants,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.