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 Israel and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Excepter to the crunk 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Wire,
T. Rex,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter & Gordon,
Anakelly,
Max Romeo,
Charles Mingus,
Ultravox,
Quantec,
Kurtis Blow,
Rotary Connection,
Blake Baxter,
Shuggie Otis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mantronix,
Section 25,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Blues Magoos,
Yellowson,
Bronski Beat,
Jandek,
Mo-Dettes,
Lalann,
Fad Gadget,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fortunes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Rod Modell,
Massinfluence,
Roxette,
The Busters,
DNA,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare,
Kenny Larkin,
Cheater Slicks,
Kerri Chandler,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Black Bananas,
Archie Shepp,
Blancmange,
Nils Olav,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
Stiv Bators,
Surgeon,
The Pretty Things,
Simply Red,
Sexual Harrassment,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nico,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Byrd,
Reagan Youth,
The Real Kids,
The Doobie Brothers,
June Days,
Jeff Mills,
Warren Ellis,
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.