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 Rwanda and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Moleskins to the punk 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boz Scaggs,
X-102,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marshall Jefferson,
Porter Ricks,
Sun Ra,
The Birthday Party,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Q and Not U,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Byrd,
The United States of America,
Absolute Body Control,
The Kinks,
Rites of Spring,
The Beau Brummels,
Loose Ends,
Spoonie Gee,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bauhaus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Traffic Nightmare,
D'Angelo,
R.M.O.,
The Mummies,
John Holt,
Barbara Tucker,
Smog,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Skriet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gabor Szabo,
Massinfluence,
Newcleus,
June of 44,
Zapp,
Nick Fraelich,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Happenings,
DJ Style,
The Monochrome Set,
F. McDonald,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eric Dolphy,
Nation of Ulysses,
cv313,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Cramps,
Cymande,
Livin' Joy,
Mantronix,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Davy DMX,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ponytail,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.