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 Egypt and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Tremeloes to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Womack,
Rites of Spring,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tubeway Army,
Nico,
Dual Sessions,
Darondo,
Grauzone,
Gil Scott Heron,
Janne Schatter,
Eric B and Rakim,
X-102,
Sonic Youth,
Matthew Halsall,
Jawbox,
Excepter,
The Slits,
The Slackers,
Agitation Free,
AZ,
Unrelated Segments,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joensuu 1685,
Q and Not U,
Alice Coltrane,
David Bowie,
The Count Five,
Ohio Players,
Nils Olav,
The Durutti Column,
Underground Resistance,
PIL,
Audionom,
Nation of Ulysses,
Godley & Creme,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Coltrane,
Panda Bear,
8 Eyed Spy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
John Cale,
Chrome,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minutemen,
Bobby Byrd,
The Gap Band,
Black Sheep,
Niagra,
Royal Trux,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Big Daddy Kane,
Yusef Lateef,
Lightning Bolt,
Aural Exciters,
H. Thieme,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.