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 Luxembourg and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron 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 UT to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
Beasts of Bourbon,
LL Cool J,
Eden Ahbez,
Marc Almond,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skarface,
Youth Brigade,
Junior Murvin,
The Fire Engines,
Moebius,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Flipper,
The Alarm Clocks,
Erykah Badu,
La Düsseldorf,
The Black Dice,
kango's stein massive,
FM Einheit,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Darondo,
Y Pants,
The Gap Band,
Can,
Maleditus Sound,
Heaven 17,
Second Layer,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Victims,
Delta 5,
The Gories,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roy Ayers,
The Golliwogs,
Q and Not U,
Eric Dolphy,
X-Ray Spex,
Underground Resistance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Cameo,
Mandrill,
Lou Reed,
MC5,
Unwound,
Ludus,
The Gladiators,
Scion,
Lower 48,
Neu!,
Rapeman,
Pagans,
Sällskapet,
Gong,
Donald Byrd,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.