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 Slovenia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slick Rick to the rap 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Saccharine Trust,
The Angels of Light,
Nico,
The Victims,
Erasure,
Buzzcocks,
The Fall,
Bang On A Can,
Jacques Brel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pole,
Flipper,
Scion,
Sandy B,
The Misunderstood,
Monolake,
FM Einheit,
Country Teasers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
X-102,
Bobby Sherman,
The Mummies,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
La Düsseldorf,
The Tremeloes,
The Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Music Machine,
Bush Tetras,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blancmange,
Mission of Burma,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rakim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pere Ubu,
Theoretical Girls,
Rod Modell,
the Bar-Kays,
Josef K,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rekid,
The Gap Band,
Cluster,
Thompson Twins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mad Mike,
Kayak,
Sonic Youth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joy Division,
Isaac Hayes,
Scratch Acid,
Mo-Dettes,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.