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 Chad and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Das Ding to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
The New Christs,
Tubeway Army,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Finger,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kevin Saunderson,
Motorama,
Joy Division,
Tomorrow,
Metal Thangz,
Grandmaster Flash,
Erasure,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Deadbeat,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scan 7,
Yusef Lateef,
Lakeside,
Barclay James Harvest,
Banda Bassotti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Duran Duran,
Sonny Sharrock,
Das Ding,
ABC,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Music Machine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Chris Corsano,
Wings,
The American Breed,
Eurythmics,
The Wake,
The United States of America,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eden Ahbez,
Dead Boys,
Ronnie Foster,
The Happenings,
Y Pants,
Fort Wilson Riot,
CMW,
Mad Mike,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
10cc,
X-102,
Trumans Water,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maleditus Sound,
Junior Murvin,
David Bowie,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Niagra,
Crash Course in Science,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.